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Steep Tea – Jee Leong Koh

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Mae llyfr cyntaf y bardd Jee Leong Koh, a anwyd yn Singapore, i gael ei gyhoeddi ym Mhrydain Fawr yn gyfoethog o ran manylion y byd y mae’n ei archwilio a’i ddyfeisio wrth iddo ddilyn ei awydd am rywun anhysbys arall, gan symud yn betrus, yn angerddol, bob amser yn ansicr ohono’i hun. Mae ei iaith yn llafar, yn gerddorol, yn ymwybodol o drwyth traddodiadau a hanesion amrywiol. ‘Rydych chi’n mynd ble? / Rwy’n mynd o’r olaf i’r litani, o writs i ddefodau. ’Mae’r cerddi yn rhannu llawer o’r amgylchiadau garw a chyfoethog sy’n siapio dychymyg awdur queer postolonial. Gan gymryd dail oddi wrth feirdd eraill – Emilia Lanyer, Eavan Boland, Xunka ’Utz’utz’ Ni ’, mae Lee Tzu Pheng – Koh yn creu testun sy’n unigryw iddo’i hun.


Singapore-born poet Jee Leong Koh’s first book to be published in Great Britain is rich in detail of the worlds he explores and invents as he follows his desire for an unknown other, moving tentatively, passionately, always uncertain of himself. His language is colloquial, musical, aware of the infusion of various traditions and histories. ‘You go where? / I’m going from the latterly to the litany, from writs to rites.’ The poems share many of the harsh and enriching circumstances that shape the imagination of a postcolonial queer writer. Taking leaves from other poets — Emilia Lanyer, Eavan Boland, Xunka’ Utz’utz’ Ni’, Lee Tzu Pheng — Koh creates a text that is distinctively his own.

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