• Where’s Joshua Ip Going?

    Review of ownself say ownself by Joshua Ip (Singapore: Landmark Books, 2024) by Shaik Aqeel Joshua Ip’s latest poetry collection, ownself say ownself, reads like an evolution, condensed into one collection and laid out in satisfying chronology for us.  The book is split into Old Work and New Work. The former consists of excerpts from…

  • that’s what friends are for

    Noonherd Issue 3: Haunt, August 2024 Noonherd is a young brown poet based in Singapore. She is in her third year at the National University of Singapore, studying at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her works have been published in various online magazines such as PLAYSET! and Antifragile Zine. Find more of her…

  • The Angels

    Theophilus Kwek Issue 3: Haunt, August 2024 ‘For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels…’ – Psalm 8:5Common enough over the blocks, we’ve all seen them or so we think. More often if we’re honest the eye skates from floor to floor and then clean beyond, to the next toweridentically towering. To…

  • hillsong murder ballad

    YH Huang Issue 3: Haunt, August 2024 they don’t teach you this at seminary, but neon’s just another name for god. look, i know it sounds mad, but just trust me: light is light is light all the same, so why can’t we bless the neon too? blessed be the purple, the yellow, the red.…

  • Moving In

    Theophilus Kwek Issue 3: Haunt, August 2024 Through the door before I know it. A sort of frequency guides the feet across the tiles, the shedding of shoes, parquet stairstensing in small arcs beneath the newspaper,a memory of workmen ascendingand descending with charts in hand, slowassembly of shelves, parts to call a life. Our life.…

  • Eulogy for the Little (Fridged) Deaths

    Noonherd Issue 3: Haunt, August 2024 The pomelo breaks fish scales. Each bite is several ampoules crushed into tartness. It rubs shoulders with strawberries, shimmies against grapes. The pomelo is only a cut thing. In its natural state it remains outside. The inside needs protecting. The fridge exists as a liminal space between the seer…