Launch of Little Things (second edition)

Launch of Little Things (second edition)
Celebrate 12 years of Little Things with us at the launch of the refreshed second edition, which features new poems and a whole new section "Our Earth". Join us for a presentation of the new edition by the editors, accompanied by poets who will read their poems in the anthology. Been touched by poems from the first edition, whether through teaching or reading them? Share what these poems have meant to you, or read other poems on life's "little things" that have inspired you, during an informal "open mic" for the audience.A celebration for the whole family, activity stations will also be available to celebrate the little things in life! (Children are welcome!)

About Little Things: An Anthology of Poetry (second edition):
In this updated and expanded edition of beloved poetry anthology Little Things, poets look afresh at things mundane and universal, from birth to growing up and first love to old age and death. This second edition also adds a new section "Our Earth", with poems that examine environmental themes. Readers will find, within a selection of more than 100 poems from Singapore and around the world, works by established and up-and-coming Singapore poets alongside well-known international poets and previously unpublished poems.Arranged in seven broad sections—Little Things, Growing Up, People Around Us, Going Places, Love and Loss, On Words and Our Earth—this anthology will appeal to readers both young and old with poems that are quirky, delightful, sad and reflective.

About the Speakers
Loh Chin Ee is Associate Professor at the English Language and Literature Department and Associate Dean (Partnerships) at the Office of Education Research at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. Her research focuses on young people’s reading at the intersection of globalisation and technological changes as well as the role of school libraries in fostering reading for pleasure and lifelong learning. She is the author of The Space and Practice of Reading: A Case Study of Reading and Social Class in Singapore (Routledge, 2017), co-editor of Literature Education in the Asia-Pacific (Routledge, 2018), and editor of The Reading Lives of Teens: Research and Practice. You can find out more about her research and work on her website at https://www.lohchinee.com. She enjoys the little things in life such as waking up to homemade coffee, reading a book without interruption, having time for little sewing projects and walking in the park with her family.

Esther Vincent Xueming is the editor-in-chief and founder of The Tiger Moth Review, an ecojournal of art and literature based in Singapore. She is the author of two poetry collections, womb song (Ethos Books, 2024) and Red Earth (Blue Cactus Press, 2021), and co-editor of Here was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Ecowriting (University of Hawai'i Press, 2023), Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore (Ethos Books, 2021) and Poetry Moves (Ethos Books, 2020). Esther has served as guest editor for Mānoa Journal (35.2), University of Hawai’i Press (2023) and as guest regional editor, Asia for a special eco-themed issue of The Global South (16.1), University of Mississippi (2022). Her essays have been published in The Trumpeter, EcoTheo Review, Sinking City Review and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. A literature educator by profession, she is passionate about the entanglements in art, science, literature, spirituality and ecology. Besides teaching and writing, Esther is an Usui Reiki Master and ANFT Forest Therapy Guide whose practice involves relating to the more-than-human world in an embodied, heart-centred way. She enjoys the little things in life like whisking herself an oat matcha latte, being in nature and breathing in and out mindfully on and off the mat.

Angelia Poon is Associate Professor of English Literature at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. Her research interests include postcolonial theory and contemporary Anglophone literature with a focus on Singapore and Southeast Asian writing. She is the author of Global City Dilemmas and Anglophone Singapore Literature: Intersectional Politics and Cultural Negotiations in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan 2024), co-editor of Singapore Literature and Culture: Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts (Routledge, 2017) and one of the editors of Writing Singapore: An Historical Anthology of Singapore Literature in English (NUS Press, 2009). Her articles on Singapore literature and contemporary fiction have appeared in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Inquiry and Asian Studies Review. She also co-edited Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore (Ethos Books, 2021). She enjoys the little things in life like coffee in the morning and the anticipation of a good book.