Commonwealth
Sinopsis
A neighbourhood containing Singapores oldest public housing estates, a catchphrase for the dream of equitable distribution, the long tail of the British Empire: the word Commonwealth uncovers rich seams of history, replete with conquests, tragedies and once-potent visions of the future. Commonwealth takes as its starting-point the massive Bukit Ho Swee fires of the 196os – an event as deeply seared into the history of Kweks family as the nations own – and traces the dislocations and relocations that have come before it, and in its wake.
Kweks earlier poetry collections dealt with questions of personal rootedness and larger-scale displacement; still formally adept, Commonwealth is a new departure, drawing on a wide array of documentary and oral history sources to address upheavals of individual and collective lives within one of the worlds most densely populated cities.
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Ficha Técnica
Editorial: Carcanet Poetry
ISBN: 9781800174849
Idioma: Inglés
Fecha de lanzamiento: 29/05/2025
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