Robert Yeo Singapore

Bio
One of the pioneers of Singaporean drama in English, Robert currently teaches creative writing at the Singapore Management University. His poems, many of which interrogate nation-building or address family ties and materialism, are collected in his volumes of poetry: Coming Home, Baby (1971), And Napalm Does Not Help (1977), A Part of Three (1989) and Leaving Home, Mother (1999). He has written many plays, including Are You There, Singapore? (1974), One Year Back Home (1980), Second Chance (1988) and Changi (1996). The Adventures of Holden Heng (1986) is his only novel.


What book would you like to snuggle under covers with, and why?
"I would like to snuggle up with Jane Austen's last novel Persuasion. It has been sometime since I read an Austen book and her understanding of love and marriage is profound and her style, for what she writes about, is peerless. I watched the movie, Becoming Jane Austen and Ann Hathaway made her desirable."

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