Tender Delirium
Poetry • 88 pages
(Re)publishing Jul 2026
Poems by Tania De Rozario
“I want to write you a poem that drives a bullet through your beliefs,” the author writes. Comprising selected work written over the course of a decade, Tender Delirium brings together estranged lovers, despairing mothers, and the avenging spirits of murdered women—all in an assortment of words that celebrate queer desire, obsessive longing, and a general disregard for proper subject matter.
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is a writer, artist, educator, nonprofit worker and author of four books.
Her writing has won the New Ohio Review Nonfiction Contest (2020), the Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Poetry Contest (2021), the SPH-NAC Golden Point Awards (2011) and has been a finalist at the Lambda Literary Awards (2021). It has been described as “sharp and searing” (Ms. Magazine), “unique” (Publishers Weekly), “lucid” (Kirkus Reviews), "taut and riveting" (LA Times), "elegant", "droll" and "magnetic" (British Columbia Review).
Born in Singapore, Tania lives and works on the traditional unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, colonially known as “Vancouver”.
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D/O
Poetry • 140 pages
Published Jun 2026
Poems by Yashmita D/O Ananthan
This debut collection explores all that we are daughters of: playlists, hometown glories, 2020s kismet, and the histories we carry in our bodies. Through poems that move and insist on taking up space, D/O traces love, memory, and girlhood as unfinished states, alongside the work of making new homes and figuring shit out. Come relish a voice that is at once diaristic and admonishing, incandescent and clear.
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A Field Guide to Supermarkets in Singapore
Poetry • 76 pages
(Re)published May 2026
Winner of the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize
Poems by Samuel Lee
“In A Field Guide, we encounter perhaps the most innovative, consummate, satisfyingly difficult and distinctive voice to date in the Ten Year series. This collection in its fresh arresting imagery reveals a new poet assured, deftly doing poetry.”—Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
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Hot Girls Have Stomach Issues
Poetry • 126 pages
Published Apr 2026
Poems by Kimberley Chia Qin
“★★★★☆ If a hot girl is the object of desire, the contents of her stomach render her abject… This collection might take its title from TikTok, but its power is drawn from not trendiness but tenderness. Chia treats with care the experience of inhabiting a body, however problematic or painful. She tenders, too, a way of existing in a fraught world, insisting upon mutual nourishment.”—The Straits Times
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blood/work
Poetry • 110 pages
Published Feb 2026
With a critical introduction by Diana Rahim
Poems by bani haykal, David Wong Hsien Ming & Izyanti Asa’ari
Our ALLTHETIME folios present three poets across the generations in conversation with one another. This time, the words of bani haykal, David Wong Hsieng Ming and Izyanti Asa’ari braid together the grievances–quiet and loud–that colour the days of our increasingly estranged lives.
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