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By Marylyn Tan
From the Summer 2022 Issue

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1. Ah kong “Grandfather” in Teochew or Hokkien.

2. Lyrics of a song my grandfather used to sing while he ate bananas, circa approx. 2000–5.

 

Marylyn Tan’s debut collection Gaze Back won the prestigious Singapore Literature Prize in poetry in 2020 and was published in the United States in 2022 by Georgia Review Books. A linguistics graduate, poet, and artist living in Singapore, Tan is the poetry reader for Singapore Unbound and founder of the multidisciplinary arts collective DIS/CONTENT.