Term 2 Week 5 Learning Log

Literature in SINGAPORE.........
Singaporean literature in English started with the Straits-born Chinese community in the colonial era; it is unclear which was the first work of literature in English published in Singapore, but there is evidence of Singapore literature published as early as the 1830s. With the independence of Singapore in 1965, a new wave of Singapore writing emerged, led by Edwin Thumboo , Arthur Yap, Robert Yeo , Goh Poh Seng , Lee Tzu Pheng and Chandran Nair. It is telling that many critical essays on Singapore literature name Thumboo's generation, rightly oThere were varying levels of activity in succeeding decades, with poets in the late 1980s and early 1990s including Simon Tay, Leong Liew Geok, Koh Buck Song, Heng Siok Tian and Ho Poh Fun. In the late 1990s, poetry in English in Singapore found a new momentum with a whole new generation of poets born around or after 1965 now actively writing and publishing, not only in Singapore but also internationally.r wrongly, as the first generation of Singapore writers.