This new selection of poetry surveys over three decades of writing from renowned Singaporean poet Alvin Pang, whose formally restless and thematically broad-ranging work has been collected here for an Indian readership for the first time. Evolving a fluid poetics and politics of language as a place of experience, his oeuvre is steeped in the tensions and intimacies of self, family, city, nation, and the everyday complexities of being human in the 21st century.