the trans-genre lesbo Singaporean folk witch grimoire you never knew you needed

published by the ever-bold and brazen Ethos Books (2018)
nominated a 31st Lammys finalist (2019)
shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize – Poetry (2020) (vote here!)

Praise:

‘not very nice to write like that’ – my mother

‘like taking a stress test in my heart’ – Dana Lam

Reviews:

AAWW Caution, Extremely Hot Stuff
Gaze Back (Ethos Books, 2018) is a book that could be considered “difficult” anywhere in the world: exploding gender and sex norms, raunch-ifying beauty standards, overturning power dynamics, scandalizing institutional religion, rejecting the comfortable at every turn […]

Singapore Unbound “Shitty Science Experiment”
Tan’s imagined body is a wonderful landscape, gazing upon even the most pungent and disobedient forms.

Mackerel Magazine Five for the Road
A distinctive voice that is much-needed in our age of #metoo and the ever-persistent overwhelming ghost of the patriarchy, this book is prophecy at its finest.

Interviews:

Straits Times:
Meet the ‘rebel girls’ of Singapore poetry [interview] “Tan, 25, writes about women, bodies and sexuality with unflinching frankness.”

CLEO:
Singapore Poet Marylyn Tan reads and explains BLADES NAMED DELILAH
Writing Poems Doesn’t Pay The Bills, Yet Poet Marylyn Tan Continues. Here’s Why [interview]

Junk Asia: And So, What is Poetry? Poet Marylyn Tan talks revolution, nasi kang kang, and healing trauma. [interview]

Quarterly Literary Review Singapore: Proust Questionnaire: 17 questions with Marylyn Tan [interview]

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