There are moments, after long strife and sojourns in the wilderness, when a face appears, as a gentle light to give meaning to the waiting, to what had seemed an interminable struggle with one's shadow. While these moments last, one is filled with fortitude, and managing to lose one's shadow, reaches the clearing in the woods. In these poems the author has tried to retain some traces of such moments of visitation. To him these records are echoes, but will have to do until the next visitation.
Author
Boey Kim Cheng is a multi-award winning Singapore-born poet, and a 1996 recipient of the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award. He emigrated to Australia in 1997, but returned in 2013 as one of Nanyang Technological University's writers-in-residence; he is currently Associate Professor in the NTU Division of English. He has published five collections of poetry, including Clear Brightness, which was selected by The Straits Times as one of the Best Books of 2012. His writing is frequently studied in tertiary and university institutions in Singapore and abroad. Boey co-founded Mascara Literary Review in 2007, the first Australian literary journal to promote Asian Australian writing, and in 2013 co-edited the groundbreaking anthology Contemporary Asian Australian Poets. In 2017, Epigram Books reissued his celebrated travel memoir Between Stations, and released his first novel, Gull Between Heaven and Earth, on the life of the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu.
