Ethos Classics: A History of Amnesia

About the Book:
Unapologetic, unafraid and unyielding, Alfian Sa’at’s second collection of verse delves deeper into the concerns in his first volume and moves into reclaiming our collective history and memory. In mining our psyche, he casts light where whispers and shadows lurk. He draws inspiration from censored histories, subsumed myths and invokes imagined voices from the exiled, demanding of the reader to witness the ubiquitous ideological fictions that surround us. This is one of the most dissonant and penetrating voices in Singapore poetry.
With a new conversation between Alfian Sa’at and founding publisher of Ethos Books, Fong Hoe Fang.
About the Speakers:
Alfian Sa’at is a Resident Playwright with W!LD RICE. His published works include three collections of poetry, One Fierce Hour, A History of Amnesia and The Invisible Manuscript, a collection of short stories, Corridor, a collection of flash fiction, Malay Sketches, and three collections of plays – Collected Plays One, Collected Plays Two, and Collected Plays Three, and the published play Cooling-Off Day.
Christine Chia wrote The Law of Second Marriages and Separation: a history. She co-edited the SingLit anthologies, A Luxury We Cannot Afford, and a sequel, A Luxury We Must Afford. Her work has appeared in Washington Square Review, The Straits Times, and the Wild Rice play, Another Country, a short film, and on an Instagram-famous Joo Chiat shophouse. She is working on her first play.
Shawn Hoo is the author of Of The Florids (Diode Editions, 2022), winner of the Medal Provocateur at the Eric Hoffer Book Award. He writes about books, theatre and visual arts for The Straits Times.