The Best of Robert Yeo by Robert Yeo -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Acknowledgements Introduction One

Introduction Convocation Suicide, 1954 Masquerade Twilight Zone Engagement The Newly-Married In a Temple Social Welfare Lottery Complex Status Words for E.T. 9th August 1965 The Search Wall Moon Madness, July 1964 28 Survival: Singapore Out of Changi

Two

Waiting for Spring Spring Yeats’s Tower London Portrait Are You There, Singapore? Colette Lines for Nita’s Birthday Napoleon at Waterloo Six to Sixteen Gathering Beneath Me Readiness Coming Home, Baby Overtaker Vietnam Turn of the Decade 1969–70 Slides

Three

Whisper for Vietnam Saigon 1 Saigon 2 Phnom Penh 1 Phnom Penh 2 Vientiane 1 Vientiane 2 The Prince Ruminates Thai Impressions Dream Abandoned Refugee Boat in Desaru, 1980 Garden City Christian Cemetery Malacca Grandmother Leaving Home, Mother One Side of the Seventies The Other Side of the Seventies In the Same Temple Mummy What Daddy Let Climates Triangle Cold Draft on an Old Candle The Passing Years Old Beginnings

Four

Waiting Fragments from an Early Seventies Diary Kept Abroad Proximities to Vietnam Boys in Jungle Green Living Elegy for Changi Beach Prospect A Dragon for the Family Instant Trees Raffles Shakes His Head Gathering Snow in Iowa City Election 1976 Lifestyle Our Guide in Guilin Guilin: Sailing Down the Li River Fighting Our Daughter Dismissing an Amah For My Second Daughter, Sha En Those in Urban Yellow Cares No Refuge from Kampuchea John Aborigines, Perth Early Lovers on the East Coast Parkway, October 1982 The Buddhist Oasis Friends Filling Marina Bay 1 The History of Emerald Hill

Five

Marina Bay 2 Singapore River River Now River Before Raffles River Rooted River in the Future Separations Tomb Wish A Poem as a Fan Happy Birthday with No Limits From Belief to Wonder

Six

Arias and Choruses from the Opera Kannagi—The Ankle Bracelet (2009)

Notes and glossary Index of titles Index of first lines Also by Robert Yeo About the Poet Other Books in the Series

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