Possession
Poetry • 128 pages
Publishing Oct 2026
Poems by Natalie Wang
Long hair keeps clogging the drains. Blood seeps through the ceiling. You finally own your dream flat—only to discover it comes with a resident ghost. But what happens when you’re the one who let the spectre in?
In her gripping sophomore collection, Natalie Wang transforms the familiar landscape of the HDB into something unsettling. Property agent flyers pile up. Community cats vanish. Josspaper burns in the void deck. Through these haunting scenes, Possession explores the quiet horrors of inherited trauma, domestic intimacy, and the invisible costs of living alongside another person. When does moving out mean moving on? And when does the haunted become the haunting?
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(b.1993) writes about cats, ghosts, and womanhood, and maintains that they are all the same thing. Her first poetry collection The Woman Who Turned Into A Vending Machine is a book on metamorphosis and myth.
Her short stories and poems have been published in Cartridge Lit, Cordite Poetry Review, Corvid Queen, Fairy Tale Review, Trampoline Journal, The Kindling, LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, Neuro Logical, OF ZOOS, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Strange Horizons, amongst others. She is one of the co-editors of Free To Play: A Video Games Anthology, an anthology of comics, short stories, poems, non-fiction essays, and multimedia projects on video games published by Difference Engine.
Possession is her second poetry collection on what she has been calling the HDB gothic: claustrophobic flats, absurd neighbours, families impossible to escape from. You can find her at <www.nataliewang.me> or @natwangthecat on social media, where she posts about books she has read and her cats.
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