Author: Chin Woon Ping
Cites
- NULL (1)
- IN: The Naturalization of Camellia Song & Details Cannot Body Wants (1993) Poetry, Singaporean
EPIGRAPH: Camellia, genus of about eighty species of East Asian evergreen shrubs and trees belonging to the tea family (Theaceae), most notable for a few ornamental flowering species and for Camellia sinensis (sometimes called Thea sinensis), the source of tea. The common camellia (C. japonica) is well known, particularly for its double (many-petaled) cultivated varieties, whose overlapping petals range in colour from white through pink to red and variegated.
FROM: The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, (None), Book, NULL
- Eavan Boland (1)
- IN: In My Mother's Dream (1999) Poetry, Singaporean
EPIGRAPH: I have yet to find the country already lost to me
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ireland
- Henry Ling Roth (1)
- IN: In My Mother's Dream (1999) Poetry, Singaporean
EPIGRAPH: The white men read books, we hunt for heads instead.
FROM: The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo, (1896), NULL, UK
- Muriel Rukeyser (1)
- IN: In My Mother's Dream (1999) Poetry, Singaporean
EPIGRAPH: first a no, then a yes
FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, US