Anthology: The First Five: A New Collection of Southeast Asian Writing

Editor:  Chan Wai Han

Language:  English

Bibliographic comments: This anthology was to be issued by five publishers across Southeast Asia: Ateneo de Manila

University Press in the Philippines, Buku Fixi in Malaysia, Ethos Books in Singapore, Silkworm Books in Thailand and

Yayasan Pustaka Obor in Indonesia.

The First Five: A New Collection of Southeast Asian Writing

Chan Wai Han, ed.

2017

Library edition: 2017, 1st Singaporean edition, 1st printing

Ethos Books

ISBN 978-981-11-4774-6

Trade paperback, 213 pages

S$20.00

Notes:

  •  Foreword credited only to "The publishers".

  •  Contains both genre and non-genre fiction and poetry.

  •  Around half of the contents have been translated into English although details provided are minimal.

Fiction: Faisal Oddang, Sawerigading Came from the Sea  //  Haana Rambe, Mrs. Naryo Got a Shock  //  Nizam

Shadan, Fantaghiro, Broery and the Wrath of Jonathan Sumpin //  William Tham Wai Liang, KAKAK  //  Angelo R.

Lacuesta, Not Like Us  //  Dean Francis Alfar, This Is the Story  //  Teo Yi Han, Nesting in the Crevice of a Human

Ribcage  //  Clara Chow, Tree House  //  Pongwut Rujirachakorn, A Dying Business  //  Pahd Pasiigon, Author's

Wing

Poetry: Oh Pey Pey, Totem  //  Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta, It Was Autumn or Fall or Whatever  //  Marjorie M.

Evasco, Quicksand  //  Ibnu Wahyudi, Meeting Notes  //  Sithuraj Ponraj, Gaps  //  Theophilus Kwek, Chinese

Workers on the Evening Train  //  Loh Guan Liang, Paraplegic  //  Hanna Francisca, A Letter to a Hero: Beijing Duck  

//  Diana Rahmin, Fist  //  Bernice Chauly, 1973  //  Alina Rastam, Pantun  //  Hanna Francisca, The Poet  //  Alfred

A. Yuson, Populism  //  Ricardo M. de Ungria, A Tale for This Mountain  //  Ibnu Wahyudi, Affection  //  Jerome

Kugan, Joy