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Elsewhere, the Cosmos Cracks

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Poetry • 126 pages
Published 30 August 2025

Poems by Chrystal Ho

A finalist for the 2024 Gaudy Boy Book Prize, Chrystal Ho delivers a debut that is both urgent and intimate. Ho takes the temperature of today’s climate by casting her observant eye across art history, domestic interiors, the documented life of Agnes Joaquim, and the invisible cracks in our everyday environment.

Elsewhere, the Cosmos Cracks is a poetry collection that asks, amidst the climate crisis, how one continues to find wonder in the everyday. 

Beginning from the confines of a HDB estate, the poems present a way of walking through Singapore’s landscape, to find moments of reconnection across time. In pieces that reconsider public housing as a garden, revisit the well-worn story of a national flower, and return to familiar rituals and language as inherited wisdom, the collection posits that some of our answers might just be awaiting us in plain sight—so long as we learn how to look.

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📌 Elsewhere, the Cosmos Cracks by Chrystal Ho is also available as an e-book at Kobo, Google Play and other retailers: Amazon US
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Poetry • 126 pages
Published 30 August 2025

Poems by Chrystal Ho

A finalist for the 2024 Gaudy Boy Book Prize, Chrystal Ho delivers a debut that is both urgent and intimate. Ho takes the temperature of today’s climate by casting her observant eye across art history, domestic interiors, the documented life of Agnes Joaquim, and the invisible cracks in our everyday environment.

Elsewhere, the Cosmos Cracks is a poetry collection that asks, amidst the climate crisis, how one continues to find wonder in the everyday. 

Beginning from the confines of a HDB estate, the poems present a way of walking through Singapore’s landscape, to find moments of reconnection across time. In pieces that reconsider public housing as a garden, revisit the well-worn story of a national flower, and return to familiar rituals and language as inherited wisdom, the collection posits that some of our answers might just be awaiting us in plain sight—so long as we learn how to look.

📢 First 25 orders come with a free bucket hat!
📌 Elsewhere, the Cosmos Cracks by Chrystal Ho is also available as an e-book at Kobo, Google Play and other retailers: Amazon US
📌 Enter discount code IDESERVEIT for orders over $50 to get free local shipping.

ISBN 978-981-94-2503-7 (paperback, 1st ed.)
ISBN 978-981-94-2504-4 (ebook, 1st ed.)


First edition, 2025
First published in 2025 by AFTERIMAGE
the publishing arm of Sing Lit Station Ltd
22 Dickson Road, #02-01, Singapore 209506, Singapore

  • Chrystal Ho (b. 1996) is a writer from Singapore who works with poetry and non-fiction. Her writing has been published in Portside Review, PR&TA, BiblioAsia, and Sine Theta Mag, among others. Keenly interested in exploring the interconnections between myth, language, and the environment, she is a former recipient of the NYU Shanghai Writing & Speaking Fellowship, as well as the National Library Creative Residency (Singapore). The manuscript of Elsewhere, the Cosmos Cracks was a finalist for the 2024 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. This is her debut collection of poetry.