![]() ![]() Cyril's poetry Ĭyril has been recognised as Singapore's first truly confessional poet, mainly "on the basis of the brutally candid sexuality in his poetry, along with a barely submerged anxiety over the fragility of human connection and a relentless self-querying but the label understates Wong's constant evolution". ![]() TIME magazine (10 December 2007) has written that "his work expands beyond simple sexuality.to embrace themes of love, alienation and human relationships of all kinds." Īlong with Yong Shu Hoong, he is one of only two poets writing in English to have twice won the Singapore Literature Prize. ![]() ![]() His poems have appeared in journals around the world, including Atlanta Review, Fulcrum, Poetry International, Cimarron Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry New Zealand, MĀNOA, Ambit, Dimsum, Asia Literary Review, The Bungeishichoo (Japanesnal, SOFTBLOW, and a featured poet at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, the Sydney Writers' Festival, and the Singapore Writers' Festival. Born in 1977, Cyril Wong attended Saint Patrick's School, Singapore and Temasek Junior College, before completing a doctoral degree in English literature at the National University of Singapore. ![]()
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