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poetic being and negotiated the multiple meanings of place as geographical location, private memory, personal association, and past fragment". Besides travel, family plays a large part in Boey's poems–in particular, the figures of his deceased father and grandmother. Boey says that his poems about them are "attempts to memorialize them, to deal with their disappearance. It’s like giving myself a second chance, for me to see them, and they to see me, in the light of what has passed. With forgiveness. And love. You are afraid to lose them, the images, the very sense of who they are." At the same time, Boey resists the label of 'autobiographical poet', describing himself as a "poet of experience".
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Boey's poems are on the A-level syllabus for
English literature in Singapore. His poem "The Planners" was included in the international O-level Literature in English and International General Certificate of Secondary Education syllabi from 2013 to 2015, and 2017 and 2018, while "Reservist" will be
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Singapore. Writer Shirley Lim remarked that he is the "best post-1965 English language poet in the Republic today". Angelia Poon argues that Boey's poems have "wrestled with the idea of travel as an inevitable part of
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Poetry Writing/Creative Prose Competition and has since received the
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