This poetry collection traces memory through places and personal history. Desmond Sim’s urban sensibility and reflective voice overlap so that the landscape of what has been walked becomes part of the poem itself.

Where you have walked becomes part of your own history.

A poetry title recorded in the 1993 prize history, using the image of an endlessly full sea to look at longing and cyclical time. The compact repetition of the title leaves a quiet echo.

Like an unfilled sea, the words keep returning.

This short poetry title can be read as a study of walking, choosing a path, and the uncertainty that lies ahead. As its title suggests, it turns on the sensations of exploration and hesitation.

The road bends and carries the reader toward an unseen place.

A collection of three plays about people trapped by family, friends, buildings and themselves as they try to break free. Tension around a collapsed building adds to the push and pull between confinement and release.

A building can collapse long before the constraints inside people do.

A compact drama text in the context of Singapore English-language theatre. It uses observation and alertness to bring everyday tension into view.

Small disturbances gradually come into focus on stage.