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Ginsberg, sing me a jiwang song!

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Poetry • 84 pages
Published 7 Dec 2025

Poems by nor

Interspersing lyric poetry, photography and the heart-wrenching lyrics of 90s jiwang, nor’s Ginsberg, sing me a jiwang song! is part of AFTERIMAGE’s select range of limited-edition concept-driven chapbooks, making them as engrossing to read as they are beautiful to behold.

This is slice-of-life. This is never-gonna-love-again, but also kiss-me-hard-before-you-go. This is life-in-technicolour, and nor in all their 4C glory. Ginsberg, sing me a jiwang song! begins with the soaring sentimentality of 90s Malay rock ballads—the sound of karaoke rooms, military camps, and bus interchanges across Singapore and Kuala Lumpur—and asks the restless spirit of the Beat Poets to update itself in this key. 

In this mixtape of poems, longing becomes communal, laughter cuts through loss, and survival resounds in chorus. These poems collide Howl with heartbreak anthems and improvise with stadium-sized longing to create a new language for queer kinship, joy and that summertime sadness by your heavenly side.

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Poetry • 84 pages
Published 7 Dec 2025

Poems by nor

Interspersing lyric poetry, photography and the heart-wrenching lyrics of 90s jiwang, nor’s Ginsberg, sing me a jiwang song! is part of AFTERIMAGE’s select range of limited-edition concept-driven chapbooks, making them as engrossing to read as they are beautiful to behold.

This is slice-of-life. This is never-gonna-love-again, but also kiss-me-hard-before-you-go. This is life-in-technicolour, and nor in all their 4C glory. Ginsberg, sing me a jiwang song! begins with the soaring sentimentality of 90s Malay rock ballads—the sound of karaoke rooms, military camps, and bus interchanges across Singapore and Kuala Lumpur—and asks the restless spirit of the Beat Poets to update itself in this key. 

In this mixtape of poems, longing becomes communal, laughter cuts through loss, and survival resounds in chorus. These poems collide Howl with heartbreak anthems and improvise with stadium-sized longing to create a new language for queer kinship, joy and that summertime sadness by your heavenly side.

📌 Enter discount code IDESERVEIT for orders over $50 to get free local shipping.

ISBN 978-981-94-3945-4 (paperback, 1st ed.)
ISBN 978-981-94-3946-1 (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

  • (b. 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist whose works situates identity and community within speculative timelines through frameworks of gender performance, ethnographic portraits and transnational histories.

    nor is the author of homesick (Ethos Books, 2025). Their writings have been in places such as Singa-Pura-Pura: Malay Speculative Fiction from Singapore (2021); Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore (2021); and Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore (2022).