About
This conversation gathers thinkers who are most familiar with Goh Poh Seng's legacy alongside contemporary writers working today to examine why the concerns he identified sixty years ago still remain urgent and relevant to our cultural landscape today.
Speakers
Koh Tai Ann, a Senior Associate at CoHASS, NTU, has taught and published on Singapore Literature and Goh Poh Seng’s writings, notably the extensive Introduction to If We Dream Too Long (NUS Press).
She edited and contributed to Singapore Chronicles: Literature (Straits Times Press) on Singapore’s 4 literatures and has created the first and only comprehensive, regularly updated digital annotated bibliography of Singapore’s literature in English at https://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/singaporeliterature/.

Moderator
Paul Tan has published five volumes of verse. Curious Roads (1994) and Driving into Rain (1998) won prizes at the Singapore Literature Prize competitions.