Cyril Wong is a Singaporean poet often recognized as the country’s first confessional poet. Poet: Cyril Wong | Nationality: Singapore | Filmmaker: Sarah Howell The winner in the Best Valentine category at Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival 2017, … Most who have dabbled in the realm of poetry would know that editing your own writing is one of the most challenging and daunting tasks. Cyril Wong is a two-time Singapore Literature Prize-winning poet and the recipient of the Singapore National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award for Literature. According to The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English, this label is based on ‘the brutally candid sexuality in his poetry, along with a barely submerged anxiety over the fragility of human connection and a relentless self-querying; but the label understates Wong’s constant evolution’. Cyril Wong Yit Mun (b. Mr Cyril Wong gleefully sharing his experiences in poetry writing. The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry considers Cyril Wong’s Satori Blues recalls “turn of the century Geoffrey Hill in its intricately patterned probing”.One of the most productive young poets from Singapore, Wong has been labelled a “confessional poet,” due to his violent sexual poems, unique in Singapore’s landscape. Warsh, Lewis. Poems here are taken from his book, Oneiros (Singapore: Firstfruits Publications 2010). In this blog, we seek to establish links between Wong's poems and other forms of art like films, music, photography and paintings. More about him here. cyril wong / poems + pop culture We are a group of students from NUS doing a project (module code SSA1207) on the confessional poet Cyril Wong. Cyril Wong is a poet, fictionist and critic. Then it vibrates and vibrates. CYRIL WONG. Cyril Wong is the author of The Lover’s Inventory, and other works of poetry and fiction in Singapore.. On Universality. Singapore: Firstfruits Publications, 2000. Toh Hsien Min. Wong has written 16 collections of poems and prose to date. Ed. Noel-Tod, Jeremy and Ian Hamilton. He clinched the National Arts Council’s (NAC) Young Artist Award in 2005 and is a two-time winner of the Singapore Literature Prize (2006; joint winner for 2016) for English poetry. Cyril Wong is the Singapore Literature Prize-winning author of poetry collections such as The Lover’s Inventory. Within the body, my spirit tingles. Panic overtaken by terror, but it passes too as I reach immobility. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 1977, Singapore–) is an award-winning poet and writer. Ben Lerner writes in The Hatred of Poetry, “Everybody can write a poem,” and asks if “the distillation of your innermost being … T: The New York Times Style Magazine Singapore’s best videos: digital house tours from around the world, behind-the-scenes looks at cover shoots and more. “Wong, Cyril (1977–).” The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English. By Cyril Wong.