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rebeccazh's review against another edition
i love the idea of this -- a migrant worker writes a poem, a call, and a singaporean poet writes a response. the most memorable one is definitely pooja nansi's response to rea maac's 'scarecrow'.
machadamia's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
I’ve sometimes felt like a foreigner in my home country. Like I cannot relate to the way some people think and yet it’s supposed to be my home. So when I picked up this book and read the first few poems about this city and how some stay to give it life and how some leave but have their hearts left behind, I felt a sense of kinship. And some of them are tough topics to tackle, like the exploitation of migrant workers and discrimination. I felt all of their love and pain and longing in the words between these pages. Some of them were a little too weird but most of them made me feel something that only poetry can.
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