Keeping Skeletons

Keeping Skeletons is about the fight to let dreams stay alive and to remain true to oneself in a place where oppression is rife. It is an exploration of one's attempts to save what will be lost or stolen, to keep memories of what we hold dear.

— from Bookshop.sg

Keeping Skeletons was the first local poetry book I've read and sparked my interest in local poetry. It speaks deeply to to the struggle of perserving dreams and memories in the face of forces that seek to erase or control them. It reminds me how fragile and precious memory is - something we fight to protect so that what shapes us, what we hold dear isn't lost or stolen. This resonates with the theme of remembering and forgetting where memory becomes an act of resistance and identity in a changing world.

— Aqilah, QUPL