Toh Hsien Min

Who is Toh Hsien Min?

Toh Hsien Min is a Singaporean poet. His poems have appeared in many literary journals and have been translated into Finnish, French, Spanish, Russian and Italian. He has been invited to read his poems in various international poetry festivals such as the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Ars Interpres Poetry Festival in Sweden, the Runokuu Poetry Festival in Helsinki and the Marché de la Poésie in Paris. His poetry has been cited in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry as "the work of an observant traveller and inventive formalist, adept at casual rhyme, colloquial phrasing and poignant structural returns" and in Wasafiri for an "ability to cross distances while still maintaining an ironic distance [and] the revelations with which he continuously endues us". Founder of the magazine the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, an important online literary periodical in Singapore, Toh studied English Literature at Keble College, the University of Oxford, where he was also president of the Oxford University Poetry Society. In 2010, he won the Young Artist Award from the National Arts Council of Singapore.