Finalist for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize

The land is furrowed deep with worry. The angsana trees areturning orange with pain.

This collection emerges, squeaking and poorly oiled, fromthis rubbish heap weve all piled up. It revels in the transfixing beauty ofthis last age of man. These poems have dwelt too close to the nuclear wastefacility. These poems have traversed through fields of madness for grains fortruth. These poems attempt to wring the last dregs out of language. Anythingbut Human grasps for a poetry beyond our collective exhaustion.

About The Author

Daryl Lim Wei Jie is a poet, writer and literarycritic from Singapore. His first book of poetry is A Book of Changes (2016).He is the co-editor of Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet (2020),the first definitive anthology of literary food writing from Singapore. He wasquoted in international media for his tabulation of similar texts in theplagiarism of the cookbook by Sharon Wee by Elizabeth Haigh. His poems won himthe Golden Point Award in English Poetry in 2015, awarded by the National ArtsCouncil, Singapore.