{"product_id":"ownself-say-ownself-new-and-selected-poems","title":"Ownself Say Ownself: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOwnself Say Ownself\u003c\/em\u003e is a chaotic collection of new and selected poetry by Joshua Ip. Half of it is 44 poems salvaged from the award-winning, out-of- print wilderness of his first five-ish collections, marked-up with mischievous metric marginalia in the newly invented form of the tilde (tl;dr). The next half is 44 new translations, performance pieces and formal experiments written over the course of a practice research PhD. So you get the best of six-ish books for the price of one, which fortuitously sums to 88 poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSee satirical singlish sonnets scrabble with spurned spoken word and shady pseudo-song-translations alongside snide summaries, split-screen cinemas, Song-dynasty susurrus, Scottish-civil-servant-salutations and circumlocutory sex scenes, in a singsong celebration of spurious sesquilinguality!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoshua Ip\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Singaporean poet, editor, and literary organiser. He won the Singapore Literature Prize for his debut, \u003cem\u003esonnets from the singlish\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), and has also published \u003cem\u003emaking love with scrabble tiles\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), \u003cem\u003esonnets from the singlish UPSIZE EDITION\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), \u003cem\u003efootnotes on falling\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), \u003cem\u003efarquhar\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), and \u003cem\u003etranslations to the tanglish\u003c\/em\u003e (2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe won the Golden Point Award for English prose in 2013, was second for English poetry in 2011, and received an honorable mention for Chinese poetry in 2015. He has co-edited eleven literary anthologies, including the \u003cem\u003esingpowrimo\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ea luxury we cannot afford \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e call and response\u003c\/em\u003e series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe co-founded Sing Lit Station, an overactive literary charity that runs initiatives including singpowrimo, seapowrimo and \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.poetry.sg\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003epoetry.sg\u003c\/a\u003e. He received the Young Artist Award from Singapore’s National Arts Council in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe completed his PhD in creative writing at RMIT in the practice research symposium programme in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe still wants to be a writer when he grows up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuaip.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ewww.joshuaip.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Pansing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48984495784233,"sku":"9789819404575","price":25.69,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/OwnselfFRONTCOVER.jpg?v=1720685679","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/ownself-say-ownself-new-and-selected-poems","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}