{"product_id":"homesick","title":"homesick","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePraise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Author \u0026amp; Editor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“at 26—\/ the earthquakes began—\/\/ tell me,\/ how was I supposed to feel at home\/\/ when the ground beneath me shook so fast”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ehomesick\u003c\/em\u003e is multidisciplinary artist nor’s electrifying poetry collection, an ode to the growing pains of every 20-something’s search for love and belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpurred by desire, the journey to belonging unfolds against the backdrop of the heartbreaking now, a time and space shaped by the fantasies of pop culture and the State. But it is exactly when love feels out of reach that the revelations sneak in. To be homesick, it turns out, is also to laugh when it seems most absurd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a voice both tender and bold, nor takes us through the highs and lows of coming of age. Bittersweet and outrageous, \u003cem\u003ehomesick\u003c\/em\u003e is a poetry debut poignant and pulsing with hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003ehomesick\u003c\/em\u003e reads like your ancestors started a group chat with your inner child. nor writes from the wreckage, after god, men and country have all let you down, and still lays the table like love might show up anyway. I felt held, then lovingly dragged. Then handed a mic and told, go on, sing.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Pooja Nansi, author of \u003cem\u003eWe Make Spaces Divine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“If nostalgia is the unappeased longing to return to a past we beheld in innocence, and the future is pure fantasy, these poems ebb and flow in between. Here is a tender-hearted but unflinching poet who beholds the painful lessons of desire and the vicissitudes of relationships with awe, gentle honesty and an undercurrent of unwavering love.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/collections\/authors\/author_cyril-wong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eCyril Wong\u003c\/a\u003e, poet and fictionist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In nor’s world, the emancipation of self arrives in tandem with love. Love’s tendrils emerge in the earliest memories of their grandfather, then refract through the men who slip in and out of their youth, before blooming in life- saving, found kinship. It is through these mirrors of relations that we are able to see nor as they shape-shift into a mermaid, bride, sojourner, enigma and lover. Between dancefloor and glittering sea, we are witness to the converging of temporalities and rhizomatic possibilities of fantasy. Yet it is a dreamscape rooted in survival, in the ekeing out of one’s truth within a normative society that hews at such expansiveness. Where there is loss, there is space for grief and still: surging desire. nor’s overflowing presence is antidote to these afflictions. They are there for themselves. They are there for the world.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Charmaine Poh\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In poems that throb, bite and sometimes burst into laughter, nor captures what it means to come of age queer in a world where belonging is packaged by the State and sold back to us in pop songs. This is the poetry of the in-between: of feeling too much, too soon, and in all the wrong places. nor writes like they’re breaking open their own ribs and letting us climb into their very core— trapping your gaze even when it’s easier to look away. A dazzling debut, \u003cem\u003ehomesick\u003c\/em\u003e distils their unbridled vision as a multidisciplinary artist, fluidly melding genres like molten glass.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Chandreyee Ray, culture journalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The most charming thing about nor’s very contemporary, very defiant debut collection is its genuinely eclectic range of poetic registers, contexts, imageries, and moods. Meanwhile, the most meaningful takeaway is the author’s audacious conviction in the full and radical potential of their personhood in a world that is already doomed. And it is this formidable combination that makes the book and its creator irresistible.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Bart Seng Wen Long, artist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003enor\u003c\/strong\u003e is a multidisciplinary artist whose work situates identity and community within speculative timelines through frameworks of gender performance, ethnographic portraits and transnational histories. nor’s writings have been published in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/singa-pura-pura-malay-speculative-fiction-from-singapore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSinga Pura-Pura: Malay Speculative Fiction from Singapore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/making-kin-ecofeminist-essays-from-singapore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e as well as \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/brown-is-redacted-reflecting-on-race-in-singapore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMok Zining\u003c\/strong\u003e is obsessed with random things: orchids, arabesques, sand. Her work has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, The Rumpus and Witness Magazine, among others. \u003cem\u003eThe Orchid Folios\u003c\/em\u003e will be her first published book. Currently, she is working towards an MFA at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she teaches creative writing. She spends most of her free time dancing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Ethos Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50543566946601,"sku":"9789811768927","price":18.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/Screenshot_2025-06-11_at_4.01.38_PM.jpg?v=1750660211","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/homesick","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}