blood/work

Poetry 110 pages • $20.90
Launching Tue, 24 Feb, 7.30pm at Behind the Green Door (97 Duxton Rd, Singapore 089541)

Poems by
bani haykal
, David Wong Hsien Ming & Izyanti Asa’ari

With a critical introduction by
Diana Rahim

Launching 24 Feb 2026:

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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.

blood/work brings together three poets whose voices intertwine across themes of endurance, immanent pain, and the body’s remembering. Moving between confession and collaboration, the collection traces how blood—as kinship, sacrifice, and persistence—binds us to histories both chosen and imposed. 

Each poet writes into the work of living: the physical, the emotional, and the collective labour of becoming. In dialogue, their poems blur boundaries of voice and authorship, building a shared anatomy of care and survival. blood/work asks what is passed through us, what we carry, and how writing might transform what wounds into what endures.

  • As an artist and musician, the work of bani haykal (b. 1985) revolves around human-machine relationships / intimacies, examining and reflecting on how tools and technologies have shaped and continue to shape our experiences from commuting to communicating, navigating places and people.

    His music and spoken word have been performed, recorded and collected into ten albums to date. Manifestations of his research culminate into works of various forms including site-responsive installations, poetry and performance. In his capacity as a collaborator and a soloist, bani has participated in festivals including Other Futures (Netherlands), MeCA Festival (Japan), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), Media/Art Kitchen (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Japan) and Liquid Architecture (Australia / Singapore) among others.

  • (b. 1988) discovered poetry as a child while at a Sunday lunch. His work explores the dualities, contradictions and absurdities of being, and has appeared on platforms like PR&TA, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and Mascara Literary Review. His first collection, For the End Comes Reaching, (2015) is a meditation on the loss that accompanies each having.

  • (b. 1988) is a writer and co-founder of Fellow Design. Her works have appeared in anthologies such as This is Not a Safety Barrier (Ethos Books, 2016), to let the light in (Sing Lit Station, 2021), New Singapore Poetries (Gaudy Boy, 2022) and The Opening Act (Layl Ash-Shayr, 2024). 

    Her practice explores how narratives and environments shape our inner lives—probing the gestures the body makes, willingly or otherwise, in response to place, memory and myth. blood/work is her debut in print.


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The 2026 edition of Manuscript Bootcamp (Nonfiction) will be accepting manuscripts of creative nonfiction via Sing Lit Station’s Submittable page from 15 Feb to 15 Apr.

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dream girl, loading

Poetry 72 pages • $26.50
Limited Edition
Launching Thu, 4 Dec, 7pm at Book Bar (57 Duxton Rd, Singapore 089521)

Poems by
Adeline Loh

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Loosely modelled after an otome (乙女; lit. trans. “young girl”) game, with special illustrations by JOYRU (Jie Ru Lim), Adeline Loh’s dream girl, loading is part of AFTERIMAGE’s select range of limited-edition concept-driven chapbooks, making them as engrossing to read as they are beautiful to behold.

dream girl, loading bends and takes shape around the dizzying promise of an otome game, where possibilities for a beautiful life unfold along a series of carefully wrought choices and the bets we place on ourselves.

The poems in this chapbook reach through different timelines and realities in search of happily-ever-afters and more fantastical ways of being. Is girlhood a state of endless possibility until a hero comes along? How long can one remain kawaii before smashing headfirst into heartbreak and regret? In the light of so many unfathomable conclusions, these poems chart a blueprint for how there might still be meaning in owning up to and remaining steadfast in the choices we’ve made, even when they’re not ideal—for the decisions we make and the endings we deserve. Are you ready to begin a new game?

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Ginsberg, sing me a jiwang song!

Poetry 84 pages • $26.50
Limited Edition
Launching Sun, 7 Dec, 11.30am, Monk’s Brew Club (Level 2) at AFTERPARTY 2025: Chaos! Community!

Poems by
nor

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Interspersing lyric poetry, photography and the heart-wrenching lyrics of 90s jiwang, nor’s Ginsberg, sing me a jiwang song! is part of AFTERIMAGE’s select range of limited-edition concept-driven chapbooks, making them as engrossing to read as they are beautiful to behold.

This is slice-of-life. This is never-gonna-love-again, but also kiss-me-hard-before-you-go. This is life-in-technicolour, and nor in all their 4C glory. Ginsberg, sing me a jiwang song! begins with the soaring sentimentality of 90s Malay rock ballads—the sound of karaoke rooms, military camps, and bus interchanges across Singapore and Kuala Lumpur—and asks the restless spirit of the Beat Poets to update itself in this key. 

In this mixtape of poems, longing becomes communal, laughter cuts through loss, and survival resounds in chorus. These poems collide Howl with heartbreak anthems and improvise with stadium-sized longing to create a new language for queer kinship, joy and that summertime sadness by your heavenly side.


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