Winners of 6th Singapore Poetry Contest
Weekly column written for the Singapore Unbound newsletter. Sign up here . Every year, in the run-up to Singapore's National Day on August 9, we announce the results of our annual Singapore Poetry Contest. Open to everyone who is NOT a Singaporean citizen, the annual contest seeks poems that use the word “Singapore” or its variants in a creative and significant way. It is our way of building imaginative connections of all kinds—integral, tangential, plural—between Singapore and the rest of the world. This year, the connections were greatly multiplied. We received a total of 432 poems, 337 more poems than last year, so you can imagine that this year’s contest was much more competitive, with many strong entries. The poems came from 32 countries around the world, 11 more than last year. Nigeria leads with 159 entries, followed by the USA 74, India 29, the Philippines 28, the UK 23, Singapore 13, Zimbabwe 11, South Africa 9, Canada 8, Malaysia 7, Australia 5, Ireland 5, P...