Toh Hsien Min

Toh Hsien Min (born 1975) is a Singaporean poet. His poems have appeared in many literary journals (e.g. ''London Magazine'', the ''London Review of Books'' and ''Poetry Salzburg Review'') and have been translated into Finnish, French, Spanish, Russian and Italian. He has been invited to read his poems in various international poetry festivals such as the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Ars Interpres Poetry Festival in Sweden, the Runokuu Poetry Festival in Helsinki and the Marché de la Poésie in Paris.

His poetry has been cited in the ''Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry'' as "the work of an observant traveller and inventive formalist, adept at casual rhyme, colloquial phrasing and poignant structural returns" and in ''Wasafiri'' for an "ability to cross distances while still maintaining an ironic distance ndthe revelations with which he continuously endues us".Jason Ranon Uri Rotstein. ''Wasafiri.'' Vol. 25, No. 1, March 2010, p. 91. Founder of the magazine the ''Quarterly Literary Review Singapore'', an important online literary periodical in Singapore, Toh studied English Literature at Keble College, the University of Oxford, where he was also president of the Oxford University Poetry Society. In 2010, he won the Young Artist Award from the National Arts Council of Singapore.

Works

* ''Iambus'' (1994)
* ''The Enclosure of Love'' (2001)
* ''Means to an End'' (2008)
* ''Dans quel sens tombent les feuilles'' (2016)

See also

* Literature of Singapore

References

External links

Quarterly Literary Review Singapore

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Singaporean poets
Living people
1975 births
Alumni of Keble College, Oxford