Toh Hsien Min

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Toh Hsien Min (or Hsien Min Toh in Western name order) has published two collections of poetry, Iambus and The Enclosure of Love. His work has also been published or is forthcoming in periodicals such as Acumen, Atlanta Review, Cider Press Review, London Magazine, the London Review of Books, Oxford Poetry, 91st Meridian, papertiger, Poetry Ireland Review and Stylus Poetry Journal, as well as anthologies such as the Oxford-Cambridge May Anthologies, No Other City, Love Gathers All and Zouk: the Book.  He has also been invited to international literary festivals such as the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Austin International Poetry Festival, the Queensland Poetry Festival, the Ubud Writers’ and Readers’ Festival, the Kuala Lumpur International Literary Festival and the Singapore Writers’ Festival.


Hsien Min is the founding editor of the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (http://www.qlrs.com), the leading literary journal in Singapore, a founding member of The Literary Centre (Singapore) and an organiser for Singapore’s first international poetry festival, Wordfeast. He has also been a recipient of the Shell-National Arts Council Scholarship for the Arts. Hsien Min read English at Keble College, Oxford, where he was also President of the Oxford University Poetry Society.


List of publications:

Iambus (Singapore, 1994), The Enclosure of Love (Singapore, 2001)

Country: Singapore

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