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The Invisible Manuscript

SGD 20.90

Poetry • 100 pages
Published Sep 2026

Poems by Alfian Sa’at

Last published in 2012, AFTERIMAGE is proud to restore to circulation Alfian Sa’at’s The Invisible Manuscript as part of its RENDITIONS series, committed to preserving and reintroducing culturally defining works.

Composed at the age of 22, Alfian Sa’at’s The Invisible Manuscript was first distributed to close confidantes and trusted colleagues via e-mails, messages and other unofficial channels. It bore passionate testimony to private and public memories, and documented the intimate challenges of longing, giving voice to an invisible minority that had struggled for recognition, and had yearned, desperately, for expression.

Now: this gathering of poems and provocative texts demands ever more to be read. Full of fierce confessions, ambivalences and flinty epiphanies, The Invisible Manuscript is a timeless contribution from one of Singapore’s most outspoken and critical voices. Here is an uncompromising confluence of unfulfilled desires, wrought through language by a firebrand unlike any other.


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Poetry • 100 pages
Published Sep 2026

Poems by Alfian Sa’at

Last published in 2012, AFTERIMAGE is proud to restore to circulation Alfian Sa’at’s The Invisible Manuscript as part of its RENDITIONS series, committed to preserving and reintroducing culturally defining works.

Composed at the age of 22, Alfian Sa’at’s The Invisible Manuscript was first distributed to close confidantes and trusted colleagues via e-mails, messages and other unofficial channels. It bore passionate testimony to private and public memories, and documented the intimate challenges of longing, giving voice to an invisible minority that had struggled for recognition, and had yearned, desperately, for expression.

Now: this gathering of poems and provocative texts demands ever more to be read. Full of fierce confessions, ambivalences and flinty epiphanies, The Invisible Manuscript is a timeless contribution from one of Singapore’s most outspoken and critical voices. Here is an uncompromising confluence of unfulfilled desires, wrought through language by a firebrand unlike any other.


📌 Enter discount code IDESERVEIT for orders over $50 to get free local shipping.

ISBN 978-981-94-6604-7

First edition, 2026
First (re)published in 2026 by AFTERIMAGE
the publishing arm of Sing Lit Station Ltd
22 Dickson Road, #02-01, Singapore 209506, Singapore

  • (b. 1977) is a Resident Playwright with Wild Rice. He has won Best Original Script at the Life! Theatre Awards four times, in 2004 for Landmarks, in 2010 for Nadirah, in 2013 for Kakak Kau Punya Laki (Your Sister's Husband) and in 2016 for Hotel (with Marcia Vanderstraaten). In 2001, Alfian won the Golden Point Award for Poetry as well as the National Arts Council Young Artist Award for Literature. He has also been nominated for the Singapore Literature Prize three times, for Corridor (1999, Commendation Prize), A History of Amnesia (2004) and his translation of the novel The Widower (2016).