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lies in crafting these absurd scenarios, which vividly and concisely capture the gist of his philosophising." Ip's focus on formal poetry has been compared to the "freeer approach to the writing of poetry of
Singapore's first generation of postcolonial poets." Of his latest collection, "footnotes on falling",
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as " Singapore's burgeoning migrant worker poetry scene a step further by pairing works by more than 30 migrants, the bulk of them low-wage transient workers, with poems written in response by locals." The
Journal of Commonwealth Literature notes that "he has emerged as a prolific contributor to the
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in 2014. The collection has been referred to in The
Straits Times as "a playful subversion of the form's rhythm and rhymes". Ip's work in "sonnets from the singlish" has been described as building "a distinctly contemporary Singapore slant through the formalism of his verse", and " greatest strength
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that "poetry is a luxury we cannot afford."The collection brings together "a rich variety of poems by both established figures and newly emergent voices", and "endeavors to imagine and create spaces for literature in
Singapore.". More recent anthologies include "Unfree Verse" (2015), the first
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Ip founded the inaugural
Singapore Poetry Writing Month in April 2014, a movement which gathered poets online to write a poem a day for 30 days. Recent editions reached an audience of 6,000 and included physical events such as
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Singaporean formal poetry spanning 80 years of history, which "represents an unprecedented attempt to plug the gap where Singaporean formal poetry is concerned", and "Call and Response"(2019), reviewed in
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for Prose in 2013 for his short story, "The Man Who Turned Into a
Photocopier", and was first runner-up for Poetry in 2011. He was selected as one of the
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described the collection as "poems that work as puzzles to be decoded.".
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