Catching crickets after school, waiting for class to end, playing with lanterns during Mid-Autumn festival, watching the rain and the world go by\u2014these are some of the little things that the poems in this anthology explore. In this updated and expanded edition of beloved poetry anthology Little Things, poets look afresh at things mundane and universal, from birth to growing up and first love to old age and death. This second edition also adds a new section \u201cOur Earth\u201d, with poems that examine environmental themes. Readers will find, within a selection of more than 100 poems from Singapore and around the world, works by established and up-and-coming Singapore poets alongside well-known international poets and previously unpublished poems. Arranged in seven broad sections\u2014\u201cLittle Things\u201d, \u201cGrowing Up\u201d, \u201cPeople Around Us\u201d, \u201cGoing Places\u201d, \u201cLove and Loss\u201d, \u201cOn Words\u201d and \u201cOur Earth\u201d\u2014this anthology will appeal to readers both young and old with poems that are quirky, delightful, sad, reflective and timely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Author: by Loh Chin Ee (Ed.), Angelia Poon (Ed.), Esther Vincent (Ed.)
\nEdition: Second Edition
\nPublication date: 2025
\nPublisher: Ethos Books
\nFormat: Paperback | 172 pages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[60,41],"product_tag":[95],"class_list":{"0":"post-9887","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-poetry","7":"product_cat-teen-young-adults","8":"product_tag-poetry","9":"desktop-align-left","10":"tablet-align-left","11":"mobile-align-left","13":"first","14":"onbackorder","15":"taxable","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9889,"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9887\/revisions\/9889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=9887"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=9887"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=9887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}