{"product_id":"sing-a-song-of-mankind","title":"Sing a Song of Mankind","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Poet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the author’s\u003cbr\u003e Introductory Note:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In the 1960s, love songs turned to songs of protest and youth the world over its voice in poetry that was grievous in its candour. These revisions of the English nursery rhymes that were a part of my childhood were a response to that troubled decade. Just out of childhood when I wrote them, I was perhaps attempting to bring a personal history up to date. That being the case, these rhymes clearly are dated; yet I venture to suggest that they resemble the spirit if in little else the mode of creation, and transmission, of their originals.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnne Lee Tzu Pheng\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is one of Singapore’s distinguished poets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA retired university lecturer, she has published in anthologies and journals internationally.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer three volumes of poetry, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eProspect of a Drowning\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1980), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst the Next Wave\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1988) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Brink of an Amen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1991), have won awards given out by the National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe is also a recipient of the Cultural Medallion for literature (1985), and other awards such as the Southeast Asia WRITE Award (1987), Gabriela Mistral Award (Chile, 1995) and the Montblanc-NUS Centre for the Arts Literary Award for English poetry (1996).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Pansing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32123240349809,"sku":"9789814189408","price":18.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/products\/sing-a-song-of-mandkind-anne-lee-tzu-pheng-00.jpg?v=1602762222","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/sing-a-song-of-mankind","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}