City of Rain by Alvin Pang


City of Rain
Title : City of Rain
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ISBN : 9810463294
ISBN-10 : 9789810463298
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 98
Publication : First published January 1, 2003

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City of Rain Reviews


  • Sharifah Ainna

    I really liked this volume. Remembered picking it up while I was visiting Singapore again and started reading it while I was on the MRT. Read 'UPGRADING' and started laughing. Couldn't help myself. Poetry can sometimes be quite heavy but Pang has a way with words and this piece was quite funny.

    Sample lines:
    I want a bedroom so capacious I can park a Jaguar in it.

    Two Jaguars. I want it large enough to be a local oddity, a tourist
    attraction, the subject of awe and envy, a heritage site.

    So huge, developers will knock on my heavy door, asking to turn
    my land into condos for profit, and I will gleefully refuse.


    As you can see, he's quite entertaining. ;p Another one of my favourites is "S.WHILE IN THERAPY". The first line reads : Leapt from another tall building today. You could probably already guess who this is about.

    Though containing quite a few humourous poems, it does contain some serious poetry. It's a good volume to pick up and enjoy and revisit. Particularly if you've been to Singapore and this part of the world. :D

  • Meryl

    Poems I loved: New Eyes and Knowing! :)

  • Kristine

    Where to begin? Pang's poetry takes me into the thick of my own backyard and shows me treasure cupped in weathered hands, trinkets I have never seen before, Singapore reimagined and rediscovered. Forget the MRT map - this is the pocket guide to this tiny island. Particularly love "To Go to S'pore", an adaptation of Zagajewski's "To Go to Lvóv."

  • Jund Rian

    Upon reading the first few poems in Books Actually, I have no doubt that this book is one of the best book of poems I have ever read. The storytelling in each poem takes you to a certain maturity of the author as he relates some issues in the most creative and artistic of ways. A must have.

  • Joan

    god like. like i cannot emphasize how much i love this book of pomes. out of the three books that i'm doing for my research paper, this is my favourite. pang's voice is strong, clear and intelligent — if someone asked me to explain singapore to them in poetry, this might be the volume i would use.

  • Sabrina Loh

    Alvin Pang makes poetry look so easy! A smooth ride through each poem takes us to urban locations ripe with passing profundity and flashy, philosophical insights.