''Unmarked Treasure'' is a poetry collection by the Singaporean poet
Cyril Wong, held together by memories about family life and intimate relationships, charged with intense emotions surrounding love, death and exploration of an emptiness within the self.
This book marks the first time that an openly gay poet has won both the National Young Artist Award for Literature and the
Singapore Literature Prize. As commented on by the poet/playwright
Robert Yeo
Robert Yeo (born Robert Yeo Cheng Chuan; 1940) is a Singaporean poet, playwright and novelist.
Career
Yeo is a retired lecturer of the National Institute of Education and Nanyang Technological University. In 2011, he is a teacher of creative wri ...
, the book contains "poems about parental displeasure and homosexual relations" but the work also allows the author "to deliberately blur distinctions between the real (Cyril Wong) and the persona (the poet who 'wonders at his own existence'.) The result is a distancing that layers the poems and renders them more fraught and complex and encourages, indeed demands, repeated reading."
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore
Retrieved 14 August 2018.
See also
* Singapore gay literature
This article deals with writing that deals with LGBT themes in a Singapore context. It covers literary works of fiction, such as novels, short stories, plays and poems. It also includes non-fiction works, both scholarly and targeted at the general ...
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LGBT culture in Singapore
Singaporean literature
2004 poetry books
Poetry collections