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Book review: Short Tongue an accessible bilingual poetry collection, if occasionally oversimplified
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Short Tongue poet Wang Mun Kiat released a bilingual collection translated by Daryl Lim Wei Jie.
PHOTOS: COURTESY OF TRENDLIT PUBLISHING, COURTESY OF WANG MUN KIAT
By Wang Mun Kiat, translated by Daryl Lim Wei Jie
Poetry/Rosetta Cultures/Paperback/140 pages/$18/Sea Breeze Books
4 stars
From the original Short Tongue poetry collection (2021) comes this republication of 60 poems that are successfully translated from Chinese to English.
