“Reading Poetry in St Lazarus Church, Yangon”
“gertrude stein's rose motif”
“Anchorite Cell II”
“Great Hall of Meaning”
[Poem in e-anthology and public installation]
Not Only Lines: Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of NUS Centre of the Arts, 2023
“Morning Recollections”
“The One Happy Thing”
“The Year Ash Wednesday Fell on Saint Valentine’s Day”
“Five Prose Poems”
“Scholem in Forty Winged Hours”
“Button Under the Couch at 20 Maresfield Gardens”
“Seven Poems”
Notre Dame Review Online Companion
“Reading Rimbaud at Tunstall”
“Sestina”
Poetry in the Surround Audience
“Excerpts From Gigi’s Graphologist”
Esquire Singapore
“Seated Between Kensho and Numinosity”
“Forty-Two Poems I Want To Write”
“The Great Arrival”
“The Martian Martian Poet and Green Groupie”
“Hsuan Tsang Before the Taklamakan Desert”
“Hagiography by the Jordan”
“Scholem in One Uneven Hour”
“Strangely, This Metamodernist Yellow”
“Three Poems”
“designer drinks at sub zero”
Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet
“When Dada Ordered Chinese”
“x is for xyst”
Thirty Days: Best of Tupelo 30/30 Project
“dang tou bang he: this is a timely warning”
“Two Poems”
“Darkness”
“The Return of Dada”
Ambit
“spurious and sacrificial”
“Three Extracts”
Celebrating Our Writers 1992–2018
“Small Acts of Translation I”
“first falling, to get here, ferric by foot”
“res signata restituere retributio”
“Blind Country of the Dying”
To Let The Light In: An Anthology of Life and Death
“Poe’s Catalina in Another Life: A Noh Poem”
Underneath: The University of Canberra
Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize Anthology
“Earth Shapes”
“Dear Bhikkhu: A Eulogy”
“Horseshoe: A Sestina”
Mo: Special Movember Anthology
“Three Poems”
“Two Poems”
Starry Island: New Writing From Singapore
“I Like Tom Sawyer Island”
Read Write [Hand]: A Nick Cave Reader
“neonate sonnet in ten-plus-four movements”
“Gertrude Stein’s Agnosia”
“A Direction of Yellow”
Contour: A Lyric Cartography of Singapore
“Because of Singularity and Convergence”
“Two Poems”
“Dream of the Window Soul: Behold de Man”
(a collaboration with Eric Tinsay Valles)
Pirene’s Fountain Tenth Anniversary Edition
“Two Questions Between Two Roundtable Discussions”
“Four Prose Poems”
“Two Questions Between the Concretists
and Color Field Painting”
“Two Sonnets and Starlings in a Cluster”
Sunrise From Blue Thunder: Japan’s Earthquake-Tsunami Relief
“Four Poems”
“as with atomism a pearlescent senryu”
“thank god it’s disco friday”
“finding the actual lengths and widths”
“Voices in the Round”
“Two Vignettes”
“i is for idealismus”
Of Zoos: Varieties of the English
“Eunoia Eye to Eye: A Sestina”
Strokestown International Poetry Festival
“Four Poems”
“Coast”
Coast: A Mono-Titular Anthology
“terminus :: limit and boundary”
“Grenouille Bleue”
Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai
“Four Poems”
“If Jeffrey Smart Painted James Joyce”
Little Red Tree Poetry Prize Anthology
“Two Poems”
“a genre from without”
“pitcairn hierarchy”
“y is for yevtushenko”
“Story”
[C.] An MLP Stamp Stories Anthology
“Beyond the Loge”
SingaPoetry: An Anthology of Singapore Poems
“a haiku is a factor of unwanted sound”
“a kuhi and looking for li rong”
“Bon Homie :: Good Nature”
Front Porch: American Athenaeum
“Excerpts from Antediluvian Birdsong”
“homeostasis, then hypergraphia”
“a haiku is a wheel and axle”
“illusionism is a waveform of haiku”
“Eunoia Eye to Eye: A MoMa Sestina”
“October Evensong”
“Poem”
“Stone Soup: A Villanelle”
“The Anti-Art Puzzle Box Starring
Diogenes of Sinope”
This is How You Walk on the Moon:
An Anthology of Anti-Realist Fiction
“The Cubist’s Mirage”
“Silence Reified”
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
“Poem”
“a place map and the tanka of time”
“vorticism is a choka in its modular home”
“Field Notes on the Flaming Heart”
Call and Response: A Migrant/Local
“Fathers Are Impossible, You Say”
“Loss, Desire and Missed Things”
A/PART: An Anthology [Forthcoming]
“Villanelles”
In the Garden of the Crow: An Anthology
“Eleven Ways of Looking at a Square”
UNION: 15 Years of Drunken Boat,
50 Years of Writing From Singapore
“Starry Starry Night”
“Blood Promise”
“When Dada Wrote Koans”
“Eight Prose Poems”
The Writing Disorder
“curiosa :: oddities”
LONTAR 4: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction
“quaere :: seek and ask”
LONTAR 6: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction
“The Anti-Art Anti-Evolution of
Manic Piggy Dream Gurrl”
LONTAR 7: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction
“Two Stories About Bloomsday”
LONTAR 8: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction
“edward hopper is a haiku in its corner”
“the arietta at the end of this kuhi”
“tychism is a senryu at dusk”
“rebound”
(a collaboration with Hsiao-Shih Raechel Lee)
“Five Vignettes”
“for the constants of hokku”
Scholars & Rogues Literary Journal
“Three Poems”
“art brut is a gogyohka in charcoal”
“Patmos Blues Along Highway 131”
“pitcairn canticle (of canticles)”
“cacoethes scribendi”
“A Haiku and the Orchestral”
“a haiku is diego velazquez at home”
“A Cavernous Joy”
“Fourteen Hours Before Exile”
Twenty-Four Flavours: Century Egg
“Requiem Aeternam”
Twenty-Four Flavours: Chicken Rice
“Ibsen’s Wild Duck on Apron Stage”
Twenty-Four Flavours: Salted Vegetables
“What We Saw Beyond Banda Sea”
(freely distributed to heighten awareness
about dolphin rescue)
Twenty-Four Flavours: Dolphin Meat
“a memorial, living area”
“{hidden stairwell and subway}”
“Waiting”
Get Lucky: An Anthology of Philippine
“reading gunnar björling [i] & [ii]”
“Ars Poetica: Pubescense”
“Soma”
“ronald johnson is digging a grave
outside of mongolia”
SingPoWriMo 2014: The Anthology
“the reluctant pangram”
SingPoWriMo 2015: The Anthology
“Not Forgetting Brigadoon”
SingPoWriMo 2016: The Anthology
“bus 138 to nowhere and back”
SingPoWriMo 2017: The Anthology
“Triśatikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra”
SingPoWriMo 2018: The Anthology
“Popcorn Neuroses: Ghost”
“a faded postcard is a tanka daydream”
“About a Coin, Contemplation and New Koans”
“Echo’s Epithalamium”
Twin Cities: An Anthology of Twin Cinema From Singapore and Hong Kong
“Two Postcard Fictions”
“Two Nanofictions”
“a haiku is a building’s inner light”
“a haiku is a greater coherence”
“Antediluvian Kural on Twitter”
“holy noise, etchings across this year’s
chinese garden”
“At First Sight (A Cardinal Number)”
“Vista // Vision // Visitation”
“A Newspaper Report in Four Acts”
“Two Questions Between Noir Fiction
and Today’s Clutter”
“Flying in the Face of Denouement”
Balik Kampung 2B: Contemplations
“I have fond memories of Toa Payoh...”
“Watching Liu Ye II”
Uncanny Yishun
“Middle Kingdom”
“as with a senryu’s hardening ridge”
“enjoy the airfield”
Presence
“a tanka is an express movement”
Saltwater Quarterly
“phenomenalism is a kuhi in amargein green”
“humanism is a manicured haiku”
“Intimation, Nausea, Oblong”
“A Nocturnal Variation”
Straylight Literary Arts Magazine
“Vignette 009”
Grey Sparrow
“The Million-Line Poem”
(a collaborative couplet sequence)
“as with prosopopoeia an old haiku”
“k is for khora”
“Grenouille Bleue”
“Fiction”
EDGZ: Conversations at the Borderland
“ab ovo :: from the beginning”
“de gustibus non est disputandum”
“Picasso the Poet”
Xconnect: Writers of the Information Age
“sensationalism is a flapjack haiku”
Barge Journal
“tutiorism is a glass-eyed senryu”
“classicism is a haiku behind a doric column”
“Untitled”
“as with a haiku’s point reflection”
The Legendary
“oeil de perdrix :: eye of the partridge”
“seeing paul klee in green on green, 1938”
“The Beach, and the Important Failure of Utopia Creation”
“murmur, the making of it”
(ekphrastic epigraph in a fashion feature)
Hype
“Five Prose Poems”
“Intervention Art No. 210305”
“In Bed With _____”
Poetry on the Move [Well-Known Corners]
“The Dispassion of Hasegawa Tōhaku”
“two eggs a day and zero depth of feeling”
CAP 30 Years Commemorative Publication
“as with a senryu’s lost innocence”
“The Old Schoolyard”
“l is for lewis in the cathedral”
“Untitled”
“The Psalmist and The Gray Wolf”
“Twenty-Eight Tracks This Evening
As A Happy Shut-In: A Quasi-Ballade”
“Spinoza”
“Eidola”
“Changeling in the Boustrophedon’s Outfield”
“The Bio as Prose Poem: B to Z”
“The Contingency of Saying”
“m is for multiplicity”
“a kuhi within qian chu’s last poem”
“a last song is an area-mapped haiku”
SELECTED JOURNAL
PUBLICATIONS
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat,
a sense of wrong,
a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
~ Robert Frost ~
Widely anthologised, Desmond’s writing has appeared in over 200 literary venues, including such prominent publications as: AGNI, Ambit, Asymptote, Blackbird, Confrontation, Copper Nickel, Cutbank, DIAGRAM, Drunken Boat, Esquire Singapore, Faultline, Fence, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Jacket2, New Orleans Review, Notre Dame Review, PANK, Pinch, QLRS, Seneca Review, Smartish Pace, Sonora Review, T: The New York Times Style Magazine Singapore, The Massachusetts Review, The New Guard, University of Canberra VC International Poetry Prize Anthology, and Versal.
At Kitaab.org, on which he acts as poetry editor, Desmond created the Lounge Chair Interview Series as another space to promote writers and/or writing with an Asian focus.
Below is a list of assorted poetry and prose pieces, and the fine publications they found a home in:
“Triptych: Iteration of Only Importance”
A Given Grace: An Anthology of Christian Poems
“How Did Fish Become This Hour, This Narrative Memory?”
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore
“Empty Tomb, Xiangbi Mountain”
People of Asia Journeying with Jesus: Snapshots & Reflections on the Synod on Synodality
“Catachresis, Then Catechesis”
“Jerusalem Donkey Waiting for the Shadow
of the Cross”
Voice & Verse “Crossings” Special Feature
“Coastal Town of Hemiplegia”
“The Only Christmas Movie Worth Its Holiday Reruns”
“Tenebrism Again, In Relief”
“Lazarus the Friend of Christ: Larnaca
Tomb Inscription”
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore
“Of Memory and Meaning”
“Translation Memory, and Your Principle of Reduction?”
“Ordinary Time”
“Vista // Vision // Visitation”
“Anchorite Cell I”
All Shall Be Well: An Anthology of New Poems for Julian of Norwich
“Overheard at Walled Churchyard”
“Conversation on Mount Olivet”
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore
“The Difference of Sounds”
“Dear Paschal Candle: Fourth Setting”
“Tintinnabulation II”
Voice & Verse “Intervention” Special Feature
“What Creeley Said, As Penitent”
