As Though the Gods Love Us

By (author): Goh Poh Seng

In As Though The Gods Love Us, Goh brings a lifetime of love, despair and passion to his work with the skill of a master craftsman. Amidst some of the world’s most exotic locales, he uses graceful and lyrical language to understand his world and to bring us closer to ourselves and each other. From Vancouver neighbourhoods to the tropical darkness of a night in Bali, Goh’s sensibility touches both people and landscapes, ranging in tone from the epic and political to the intimate and personal. Hailed as “one of Asia’s finest living poets” (Asia Magazine), Goh Poh Seng published his first Canadian book of poetry, The Girl from Ermita: Selected Poems in 1998. As Though the Gods Love Us collects Goh’s recent writings since his immigration to Canada. Honest and thoughtful, this is a collection that reflects Goh’s experiences as a peripatetic physician who has become intimate with many of the world’s cultures, most recently British Columbia’s.

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Goh Poh Seng

Goh Poh Seng was born in Malaya in 1936. He received his medical degree from University College in Dublin, and practised medicine in Singapore for twenty-five years. Goh’s first novel, If We Dream Too Long, won the National Book Development Council of Singapore’s Fiction Book Award and has been translated into Russian and Tagalog. His other books include The Immolation, Dance of Moths, Eyewitness, Lines from Batu Ferringhi and Bird with One Wing. His work has also appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies around the world. Dance of Moths and his poetry collections As Though the Gods Love Us and The Girl from Ermita: Selected Poems are available through Nightwood Editions. He passed away in 2010.


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Praise for Goh Poh Seng:

Dr. Goh Poh Seng … novelist, short story writer, playwright doctor of medicine, and certainly, one of Asia’s finest living poets.
Asia Magazine

His talent is the most promising Malaysia and Singapore have between them.
Drama Review, New York

His work has a very special atmosphere and flavour and philosophy of its own, which particularly appeals to me since I have lived out here (Asia) for a long time. He is highly regarded.
The Observer, Dennis Bloodworth
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In As Though The Gods Love Us, Goh brings a lifetime of love, despair and passion to his work with the skill of a master craftsman. Amidst some of the world’s most exotic locales, he uses graceful and lyrical language to understand his world and to bring us closer to ourselves and each other. From Vancouver neighbourhoods to the tropical darkness of a night in Bali, Goh’s sensibility touches both people and landscapes, ranging in tone from the epic and political to the intimate and personal. Hailed as “one of Asia’s finest living poets” (Asia Magazine), Goh Poh Seng published his first Canadian book of poetry, The Girl from Ermita: Selected Poems in 1998. As Though the Gods Love Us collects Goh’s recent writings since his immigration to Canada. Honest and thoughtful, this is a collection that reflects Goh’s experiences as a peripatetic physician who has become intimate with many of the world’s cultures, most recently British Columbia’s.

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Dimensions:

120 Pages
9in * 6in * 0.36in
0.65lb

Published:

July 01, 2000

Publisher:

Nightwood Editions

ISBN:

9780889711716

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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