Kim Cheng Boey

Kim Cheng Boey has published six books of poetry, a book of essays entitled Between Stations, and a historical novel about the Tang poet Du Fu entitled Gull Between Heaven and Earth. His collection The Singer and Other Poems won the 2023 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize.

Works By Kim Cheng Boey

Living it Line by Line
Hossein Asgari and Kim Cheng Boey talk about the novels they have each written about a real-life poet: respectively, the mid-twentieth-century Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad and the Tang-dynasty Chinese poet Du Fu.
13 June. 2025
Wedged Between the Old and the New
In the career of a poet, the third and fourth books are usually where a certain maturity of voice and style is reached, and a staking out of key thematic ground is achieved. Chong’s formal mastery, her stanzaic control, the deft handling of lyric
31 Aug. 2018

Works Featuring Kim Cheng Boey

Many Shells in a Windy Place: An Interview with Boey Kim Cheng
For me, the fact that Boey exists as a poet at all, and that he continues to write poetry, is a miracle altogether.
12 Apr. 2021