What God Took Your Legs Away

These poems strive to leap out of the collection, building a bed, watching a cult film, and reading the news. They take flights between the personal and the political, between Singapore's landscape and broader global movements and inequity, often reflecting on migration, memory, and love. The collection explores the intersections of private griefs and communal narratives, written in a voice that is tender and unflinching. It interrogates the tensions between the body, the nation, and their intertwined histories, questioning what it means to write with or against one's longings. The poems are noted for their movement, migration themes, and portrayal of kinship and flux, with a style that feels hard-won and keenly observed. The collection resonates deeply, addressing questions of origin and how that knowing is carried in the body.