Theophilus Kwek has published five volumes of poetry, two of which were shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize. His pamphlet,
The First Five Storms, won the New Poets’ Prize in 2016 and was also shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award in 2017. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in
The Guardian,
Times Literary Supplement, The London Magazine and elsewhere; he has also written on issues of migration and citizenship for
The Straits Times,
South China Morning Post, and
Singapore Policy Journal. He has edited several books of Singapore writing, and serves as editor of Oxford Poetry.
Moving House is a collection of border-crossing poems that make their way from episodes in Southeast Asia’s colonial history, to scenes of displacement and difference in contemporary Britain and Singapore. Drawing on the author’s personal and family histories, it lands on the bigger question of what it means to feel at home in a mobile and deeply unsettled world.
