Commonwealth

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Commonwealth

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Author: Theophilus Kwek

Type: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9781800174832

Date: 29th May, 2025

Publisher: CARCANET PRESS

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A neighbourhood containing Singapore' s oldest public housing estates, a catchphrase for the dream of equitable distribution, the long tail of the British Empire: the word ' Commonwealth' uncovers rich seams of history, replete with conquests, tragedies and once-potent visions of the future. Commonwealth takes as its starting-point the massive Bukit Ho Swee fires of the 196os - an event as deeply seared into the history of Kwek' s family as the nation' s own - and traces the dislocations and relocations that have come before it, and in its wake. Kwek' s earlier poetry collections dealt with questions of personal rootedness and larger-scale displacement; still formally adept, Commonwealth is a new departure, drawing on a wide array of documentary and oral history sources to address upheavals of individual and collective lives within one of the world' s most densely populated cities.

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