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Arthur Yap

2006-09-21T11:52:16Z

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'''Arthur Yap''' ([[Simplified Chinese|Chinese]]: 叶纬雄; [[1943]]-[[June 19]], [[2006]]) was arguably the finest [[poet]] to emerge from [[Singapore]]. He was educated at the [[University of Singapore]] and the [[University of Leeds]] in [[England]], and obtained his PhD from the [[National University of Singapore]]. He taught in various institutions, including the NUS.

His first collection of poems, ''Only Lines'', was published in 1971, for which he received the National Book Development Council of Singapore’s first award for poetry in 1976. He also received the Council’s award for ''Down the Line'' in 1982 and ''Man Snake Apple'' in 1988. In 1983, he was awarded the [[S.E.A. Write Award]] in Bangkok and the Cultural Medallion for Literature in Singapore. His poems have also been translated into Japanese, Mandarin and Malay, and were collected in ''The Space of City Trees: Selected Poems'' in 2000.

Yap’s poetry is distinctive for an unusual linguistic playfulness and subtlety that is able to bridge the rhythms of [[Singlish]] with the precision of acrolectic English. Unsurprisingly, the craft of Yap’s voice has the admiration of other writers. [[Anthony Burgess]] has written that he encountered ''Down the Line'' "with elation and occasional awe", while [[D. J. Enright]] has praised Yap’s "sophisticated cosmopolitan intelligence". The ''Oxford Companion to 20th-Century Poetry'' describes Yap’s poems as "original, but... demanding: elliptical, dense, dry, sometimes droll. At their best, they shuttle between playfulness and sobriety and are alert to the rhythms and contours of the natural and the peopled landscape, seasoning insight with compassion."

Although never as public a figure in Singapore literature as [[Edwin Thumboo]] or even [[Lee Tzu Pheng]], Yap has been influential among the younger generations of Singapore writers, including [[Heng Siok Tian]], [[Toh Hsien Min]] and [[Cyril Wong]]; the former two were students under him.

Yap was also an artist who held seven solo exhibitions in Singapore, as well as participating in group exhibitions in Malaysia, Thailand and Australia.

He passed away in his sleep, at home, after two and half years of battling with throat cancer, on the night of 19 June 2006.

==External links==
* [http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/yap.html 3 poems] at thedrunkenboat.com
* [http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/post/singapore/literature/poetry/yap/yapov.html Arthur Yap overview]
* [http://www.seawrite.com/ SEA Write Awards]
*[[Yawning Bread]]'s article on Arthur Yap: [http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2006/yax-618.htm]

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2005-12-17T06:27:10Z

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2005-12-06T14:52:06Z

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