What God Took Your Legs Away

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Poetry • 96 pages
Published 5 Jul 2025

Poems by Wahid Al Mamun

These poems strive to leap out of the collection. These poems build a bed, watch a cult film, read the news. They take endless flights between the personal and the political, between the specific contours of Singapore’s landscape and the broader trajectories of global movements and inequity. But they can never find their way home.

it took me eight years but here I am, carving, carving
against my wounds until I hit the bone and start

Written over eight years, Wahid Al Mamun’s debut collection of poems is an intricate exploration of migration, memory and love, built on the intersections of private griefs and communal narratives, uttered in a voice both tender and unflinching. What God Took Your Legs Away deftly interrogates the tensions between the body, the nation and their intertwined histories, and asks what it means to write with—and against—one’s (be)longings. It’ll bring you to your knees and take your breath away.

📌 What God Took Your Legs Away by Wahid Al Mamun is also available as an e-book at Kobo and other retailers: Amazon US
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Poetry • 96 pages
Published 5 Jul 2025

Poems by Wahid Al Mamun

These poems strive to leap out of the collection. These poems build a bed, watch a cult film, read the news. They take endless flights between the personal and the political, between the specific contours of Singapore’s landscape and the broader trajectories of global movements and inequity. But they can never find their way home.

it took me eight years but here I am, carving, carving
against my wounds until I hit the bone and start

Written over eight years, Wahid Al Mamun’s debut collection of poems is an intricate exploration of migration, memory and love, built on the intersections of private griefs and communal narratives, uttered in a voice both tender and unflinching. What God Took Your Legs Away deftly interrogates the tensions between the body, the nation and their intertwined histories, and asks what it means to write with—and against—one’s (be)longings. It’ll bring you to your knees and take your breath away.

📌 What God Took Your Legs Away by Wahid Al Mamun is also available as an e-book at Kobo and other retailers: Amazon US
📌 Enter discount code IDESERVEIT for orders over $50 to get free local shipping.

ISBN 978-981-94-2316-3 (paperback)
ISBN 978-981-94-2317-0 (ebook)

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. 1997) is a poet and Ph.D. student in Anthropology at McGill University. He grew up in Singapore and lives in Montréal.

    Wahid’s creative and academic interests lie in the intersections of migration, performance and intimacy. His poems and translations have appeared in the Cordite Poetry Review, PR&TA Journal and QLRS, and has also appeared in installations at the Singapore Art Museum, People’s Studio, and on the MRT. He has also performed his works at writers’ festivals in Singapore and Melbourne. 

    What God Took Your Legs Away is his debut in print.

  • Due to a typesetting error, the Bengali text in some copies may not appear as intended. As a press, we care deeply about the integrity of this work and language, and a corrected digital version is available upon request; do e-mail publishing@singlitstation.com.

    15 ইলিশ মাছ

    22 এই কবিতা কিছু জানে না।

    59 আমার জীবনসঙ্গী। তোমার আদরে আমি ভেসে আছি।

    60 সব ভেঙে গেছে। ধ্বংসের অবশেষে ভাষা খুঁজতে হবে।

    60 শূন্যের দাম সোনার ওজন দিয়ে কিনলাম।

    67 “আমার ছেলেরা…”