In As Though The Gods Love Us, Goh brings a lifetime of love, despair and passion to his work with the skill of a master craftsman. Amidst some of the world's most exotic locales, he uses graceful and lyrical language to understand his world and to bring us closer to ourselves and each other. From Vancouver neighbourhoods to the tropical darkness of a night in Bali, Goh's sensibility touches both people and landscapes, ranging in tone from the epic and political to the intimate and personal.
Hailed as "one of Asia's finest living poets" (Asia Magazine), Goh Poh Seng published his first Canadian book of poetry, The Girl from Ermita: Selected Poems in 1998. As Though the Gods Love Us collects Goh's recent writings since his immigration to Canada. Honest and thoughtful, this is a collection that reflects Goh's experiences as a peripatetic physician who has become intimate with many of the world's cultures, most recently British Columbia's.
In As Though The Gods Love Us, Goh brings a lifetime of love, despair and passion to his work with the skill of a master craftsman. Amidst some of the world's most exotic locales, he uses graceful and lyrical language to understand his world and to bring us closer to ourselves and each other. From Vancouver neighbourhoods to the tropical darkness of a night in Bali, Goh's sensibility touches both people and landscapes, ranging in tone from the epic and political to the intimate and personal.
Hailed as "one of Asia's finest living poets" (Asia Magazine), Goh Poh Seng published his first Canadian book of poetry, The Girl from Ermita: Selected Poems in 1998. As Though the Gods Love Us collects Goh's recent writings since his immigration to Canada. Honest and thoughtful, this is a collection that reflects Goh's experiences as a peripatetic physician who has become intimate with many of the world's cultures, most recently British Columbia's.
As Though the Gods Love Us
As Though the Gods Love Us
Testament
Driving Through Snow in Gros Morne Park
Sleepless in Bali
Of Gods and Men
Pulau Hujong
Inheritance
Night Rain
Appraising Heaven
For My Grandson, Kio Koon
Waiting for Love
Palimpest
Parkinson's Disease
Lately, the Going's Hard
Riding the No.9 Bus
A Christmas Tale from San Miguel de Allende
As I Walk By
On the Beach by Spanish Banks
The Fall Rain
Cruising to Alaska
Song of Paranoia
Drowning
Fruits
from Eyewitness
Evening at the Beach
The Staying Echo
Big City Evening Song
Scoresheet
The Nothing New
Sleeping Figure
Lament
By the Sea at Sarimboon
With a Friend
As a Wind
Love, a Bird
Pastoral
The Long Shore
Holiday
from Lines from Batu Ferringhi
First Day - Tuesday,16th July, 1974
Second Day - Wednesday, 17th July, 1974
from Fragments from Ramayana
Ramayana: Overture
Ramayana: Rama Exiled to Dankaka Forest
Ramayana: Surpanakha Spurned
Glossary
Goh Poh Seng was born in Malaya in 1936. He received his medical degree from University College in Dublin, and practised medicine in Singapore for twenty-five years. Goh's first novel, If We Dream Too Long, won the National Book Development Council of Singapore's Fiction Book Award and has been translated into Russian and Tagalog. His other books include The Immolation, Dance of Moths, Eyewitness, Lines from Batu Ferringhi and Bird with One Wing. His work has also appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies around the world. Dance of Moths and his poetry collections As Though the Gods Love Us and The Girl from Ermita: Selected Poems are available through Nightwood Editions. He lives with his family in Vancouver.
Praise for Goh Poh Seng:
Dr. Goh Poh Seng ... novelist, short story writer, playwright
doctor of medicine, and certainly, one of Asia's finest living
poets.
--Asia Magazine
His talent is the most promising Malaysia and Singapore have
between them.
--Drama Review, New York
His work has a very special atmosphere and flavour and philosophy
of its own, which particularly appeals to me since I have lived out
here (Asia) for a long time. He is highly regarded.
--The Observer, Dennis Bloodworth
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