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Malaysian Millennial Voices

Author :  Edited by Malachi Edwin Vethamani

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Country
Malaysia
Publisher
Maya Press
ISBN 9789832737629
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2021
Bib. Info xvi, 118p.
Categories Poem
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After the relative drought, during the years since Malaysia first took to the vocation of writing verse in English in the nineteen fifties. We now have in this collection of poems by Malaysia millennials signs of coming shower. By their numbers, they show more clearly than before their diversity in communal origins, gender, cultural interest, and regional spread. As Malaysians, they have arrived, making a home here for poetry in English. Gone is the angst of the poets who began publishing in the fifties and sixties over a perceived exilic condition, the proper language to write in, the country's cultural situation and the lack of literacy antecedents. The language in these collections, as may be expected, is very twenty-first century, a toned-down speech of conversation about ordinary things and everyday events in an urbanised environment. The collection marks on ongoing evolution of Malaysia poetry. I am optimistic that from the poets represented here, there will emerge at least two or three important voices in the decades ahead. – Wong Phui Lam, Malaysia Poet

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