Look How We've Already Forgotten by Gwee Li Sui | Sing Lit Book Club
Central Library at the National Library Building - Programme Room 1 (Basement 1)
07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Free Admission
About the Programme
Join us at Singapore Literature Book Club for an exclusive discussion of the featured book with the author present. As this will be an interactive session, please come prepared to discuss the book and share your thoughts!
About the Author
Gwee Li Sui loves to write, draw, and make all kinds of books. He has published eight poetry collections to date, the latest being Look How We’ve Already Forgotten. His creative journey began with Singapore’s first graphic novel in English, Myth of the Stone, in 1993. Of late, he has been translating literary classics such as The Little Prince, Winnie-the-Pooh, and Animal Farm into Singlish.
About the Book
Gwee Li Sui’s eclectic journal in verse recounts the entire COVID-19 pandemic as experienced in Singapore.
Setting a time of global upheaval against private emotions and meditations, it hauntingly captures the years-long morbid dance of horror and farce, of boisterousness and deathly quiet.
This book is a desperate attempt to document a bygone recent era and asks a central question: what do we elementally lose when we allow ourselves to forget?
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