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Borrowed this as I was intrigued by the theme of travel. A couple of story stories did impress me (“Meat Bone Tea”, “Between Stations”), but others simply rambled on. Besides the multiple mentions of Changi Airport, the pieces didn’t quite connect for me and the book could have been shorter.
The prose and essays were better than the poems, notwithstanding the fact that airport/aeroplane/travel/transit is already a hackneyed topic.
Heartfelt, poignant, resonant. Loved all the prose and most of the poetry. A superb collection of SingLit.
Caveat: I'm refraining from giving a star rating as i have a short story published in this anthology.This was pretty hit and miss, but there were some enjoyable stories in here. My favourites were JY Yang's Pocket Cities (plot was short on substance, but i liked the allegorical play), Jeremy Tiang's Terminal (he has the rare gift of being a funny writer when he wants to), Yeo Wei Wei's Chin Chin (although the ending was somewhat unsatisfying) and Boey Kim Cheng's Between Stations (what a fantast...
A diverse and interesting collection of poems, short stories and essays of very high quality. One of my short stories, The Looker, can be found within its pages. Images from the launch at BooksActually can be found here: http://igloomelts.com/jongreshyahooco...
Kinda meh. (Sorry Ms Zhang.)[Review 1 - 05/05/17.]
Spoke to my frame of mind as I'm between two homes. I enjoyed the mix between prose and poetry, and the editors did a nice job in ordering linked themes. Huge range on the quality of contributions.
An overlong collection (not helped by the unnecessary page breaks between contributions) that could have done with higher editorial standards and a much more urgent or interesting reason to exist. Like the clichéd pictures on the cover, there are too many throwaway poems like "The Mouse", "Final Call", "Migratory Pattern", "Spread" and "Trajectory" and amateurish short stories such as "Pocket Cities", "Ramblings of a Trolley Uncle" and "The Poems of Horvalla". Unfortunately, the themes of airpor...
A very dear friend gave me this book when I was about to leave Singapore to start my undergraduate education. There is something perversely fitting that I have finished this (1) after I had to complete my final term of university and graduate in Singapore over a virtual platform (2) because of a global pandemic which has grounded all but essential travel and forced countless students to evacuate campus. I started this anthology before the onset of the pandemic, during one of the summer breaks wh...
