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Gen Z poet Chim Sher Ting turns to World War II for inspiration in debut collection Burn After Dawn
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Poet Chim Sher Ting's debut collection is titled Burn After Dawn, and explores the Japanese Occupation of Singapore.
PHOTOS: LANDMARK BOOKS, COURTESY OF CHIM SHER TING
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SINGAPORE – For those still harbouring illusions of Singapore as a nation with no history, poet Chim Sher Ting has an eloquent rebuttal, tucked in the final line of her debut collection, Burn After Dawn: “You don’t know how much I’m coming from.”
Despite her youth, the 27-year-old doctor at a public hospital has chosen as her subject the Japanese Occupation of Singapore from 1942 to 1945 for her first full-fledged volume of works.
