{"product_id":"waves-rising","title":"Waves Rising: Collected Works of Ho Poh Fun \u0026 Responses","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWaves Rising\u003c\/em\u003e is a volume that aims to recover the voice of Ho Poh Fun, an accomplished poet and fiction writer in the 1980s and 1990s, while establishing the contemporary relevance of her work to the growing readership of Singapore literature. Ho’s poetry and short fiction engage with questions of land reclamation, ecological loss and the lived experience of localities in way that were ahead of her time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book adds to the widening critical reception of Singapore writing by pioneering a hybrid genre that puts a single author writing’s alongside creative and critical responses to Ho as writer and teacher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSingapore in the late seventies is first dreamt, then built: a city that envelopes an entire island. Thousands have begun their lives in highrise housing, skyscrapers ascend to a sky that recedes; an entire shoreline is buried as the East Coast is reclaimed. Nature withdraws: the neighbourhood of Katong forgets the sea as marine mollusks are buried, and sea-turtles depart. A teacher in her thirties becomes a writer, penning fiction and poetry that calls forth trees and flowers by name, and captures the feminine consciousness of an ascendent middle-class. In her work, the character of the New Woman navigates pregnancy and rospects in an increasingly regulated and amnesiac society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWaves Rising\u003c\/em\u003e brings together, for the first time, the entirety of Ho Poh Fun’s published writing, including the full text of \u003cem\u003eKatong and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, and her accomplished fiction that first appeared in \u003cem\u003eSinga\u003c\/em\u003e. A teacher of many, this volume also signals her arrival as a writer in the form of creative and critical responses from fellow poets, colleagues, students and new readers discovering Ho for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr Ann Ang\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at the National Institute of Education. A published writer of poetry, fiction and literary criticism, Ann is the author of \u003cem\u003eBang My Car\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), a Singlish-English collection of short stories and the poetry collection \u003cem\u003eBurning Walls for Paper Spirits\u003c\/em\u003e (2021). She is also the editor of several anthologies including \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/poetry-moves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry Moves\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2020), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/food-republic-a-singapore-literary-banquet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFood Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2020) and \u003cem\u003eHere was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Eco-Writing\u003c\/em\u003e (2023).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Ethos Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49545370304809,"sku":"9789811739989","price":28.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/GeNRaZcacAAWKlo.jpg?v=1734161902","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/waves-rising","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}