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Poetry

11 X 9: Collaborative Poetry from the Philippines and Singapore — eds. Joshua Ip and Martin Villaneuva (Math Paper Press, 2019)
↳ “Charaught…”

A Luxury We Cannot Afford: An Anthology of Singapore Poetry — eds. Christine Chia and Joshua Ip (Math Paper Press, 2014)
↳ “Last Will”
↳ “Garden City”

Alluvium: The Literary Shanghai Journal — 30 Oct 2017
↳ “The Librarian"
↳ "Sunday"

Asian American Writers’ Workshop— 14 Feb 2023
↳ “Sungei Road"

Call and Response — eds. Rolinda Onates Espanola, Zakir Hossain and Joshua Ip
↳ "New World Order (II): Nuclear Poem"

Ceriph — Vol. 6
↳ “On the Impossibility of a Perfect Language (1819?)”
↳ “Running by the Kallang”
↳ “Cingapura”

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal — Vol. 24 (Jun 2014)
↳ “The Wonton Noodle Seller”
↳ “An Argument for Chinese Folk Religion”

Cordite Poetry Review — 1 Feb 2018
↳ "Parkway"

Drunken Boat — Vol. 21: Union
↳ “21 July 1964”

Eye/Feel/Write: Building Architectonics — ed. Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingde (Squircle Line Press, 2015)
↳ "Nadra”
↳ “From the Tympanum”
↳ “At the National Gallery, Singapore”

HK-SG Digital Travel Bubbleed. Joshua Ip and Eddie Tay
↳ “Kallang”
↳ “Mongkok”

LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction — Vol. 5
↳ “Tooth”

The Margins14 Feb 2023
↳ “Sungei Road”


OF ZOOST O G E T H E R APART
↳ “What roils our land of plenty and rampant…”
↳ “Carnivorous Reveries"
↳ “State of Exception"

Pandemic Time — a collaboration with visual artist Wong Weng Yew: Pandemic Time is a collection of 24 diptychs, each representing one hour of the day, and each paired with a poem contributed by one of 24 Singaporean poets. Each artwork consists of a long exposure of exactly one hour, and a multi-exposure of 60 photographs taken every 60 seconds over the same hour.
↳ “From here I can lick the clouds”

Quarterly Literary Review Singapore — Vol. 15, No. 4 (Oct 2016)
↳ “The Event”
↳ “First Day at Work"

Quarterly Literary Review Singapore — Vol. 16, No. 3 (Jul 2017):
↳ “A Phenomenological Cookbook”

Quarterly Literary Review Singapore — Vol. 18, No. 1 (Jan 2019):
↳ “Domestic Bliss”

Singapore Unbound — feature of “Singapore Pastoral” including a reading and analysis

SingPoWriMo: The Anthology — eds. Ann Ang, Joshua Ip and Pooja Nansi (Math Paper Press, 2014)
↳ “The End”, “unsettle the hubris of the stars”
↳ “I think I told you once..”
↳ “Sometimes I think tiredness…”

SingPoWriMo 2015: The Anthology — eds. Daryl Qilin Yam, Jennifer Anne Champion and Joshua Ip (Math Paper Press, 2015)
↳ “For G.P.”

Softblow — Apr 2015
↳ “Garden City”

Southwest Review — Vol. 104, No. 3 (2020)
↳ “Expression of Contentment”
↳ “McDonald’s With the Death Penalty.”
↳ “I am an Eye”
↳ “Age of Miracles”

sploosh! Magazine — Issue 1, July 2023
↳ “Something from Nothing”
↳ “fish head curry.”

Poetry Daily — 28 June 2020
↳ “Age of Miracles”


Short Stories

Balik Kampung 3B: Some East, More West — ed. Verena Tay (Math Paper Press, 2016)
↳ “Josephine Lee”

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal — Vol. 28 (June 2015)
↳ “Ah Yap Hot and Cold Drinks”

The Straits Times — 24 Dec 2023
↳ “Awakening”


Exhibitions

Out of Print — curator for exhibition featuring reimagined covers of classic Singapore literature works, together with Sing Lit Station and designer Sarah & Schooling.

Local Flavours — a digital reading experience by Tusitala, featuring food poetry from Singapore; poems curated by Daryl Lim Wei Jie with the assistance of editors Zhou Decheng, Annaliza Bakri and Kanchana Amir.


Translation

Cordite Poetry Review — 99: Singapore
Translated the poems of Singaporean Chinese poets Wang Mun Kiat (黄文杰) and Chua Chim Kang (蔡深江) into English.

Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation — WITHOUT
Creative non-fiction collage piece on the poetry of Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi 白居易

POETRY — “The Song of the Willow Branches”
Translation of Bai Juyi’s 杨柳枝词

Short Tongue 短舌 — Trendilt Publishing

Translations of the Singaporean Chinese poet Wang Mun Kiat 黄文杰


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Essays and Creative Non-Fiction

ArtsEquator — 3 Oct 2022
↳ Wong Phui Nam, Prophet of Malayan Poetry

The Birthday Book 2017: What Should We Never Forget? — eds. Sheila Pakir and Malminderjit Singh (Ethos Books, 2017)
↳ "The Arts of Memory"

Quarterly Literary Review Singapore — Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan 2013)
↳ “The Original Sin of Singapore’s History”

Men Matters Online Journal — Issue #3: December 2021, Special Feature on Wong Phui Nam
↳ “Barren Fecundity: The Poetry of Wong Phui Nam"

POSKOD.SG — 2014
↳ “Chinese, New Fears”

Poetry Northwest — 14 Dec 2022
↳ “No country but our century”: Wong May, Poet of Lostness

poetry.sg — 4 Nov 2015
↳ critical introduction to Aaron Maniam (with Esther Ng)
↳ critical introduction to Eddie Tay

poetry.sg — 19 Aug 2017
↳ critical Introduction to Wong Phui Nam

Singapore Unbound — 4 Nov 2022
↳ “Lighting Candles for a Local Osiris” (Essay on the Life and Work of Wong Phui Nam)

《我獅城,我街道》(“Streets and Places of Singapore”)

↳《波東巴西,我這般中意的小鎮》(“Potong Pasir, My Kind of Town”), translated from English by Ang Lai Sheng 汪來昇

↳English version published by the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore



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Criticism

Asian Books Blog
↳ “In the Same Light?”, review of Wong May’s In the Same Light, translations of Tang poetry

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal — Vol. 42 (Jan 2019)
↳ review of Yang Mu's Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems

Quarterly Literary Review Singapore — Vol. 12, No. 4 (Oct 2013)
↳ “View from below”, review of Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh’s Floating on a Malaysian Breeze: Travels in Malaysia and Singapore

Quarterly Literary Review Singapore — Vol. 13, No. 1 (Jan 2014)
↳ “Trying Too Hard”, review of Occupational Hazards, Mayo Martin

Quarterly Literary Review Singapore — Vol. 13, No. 2 (Apr 2014)
↳ “Making Visible”, review of Passages: Stories of Unspoken Journeys, ed. Yong Shu Hoong

Quarterly Literary Review Singapore — Vol. 14, No. 1 (Jan 2015)
↳ “Mapping Minutiae”, review of Justin Ker’s The Space Between the Raindrops
↳ “Safe Harbour”, review of Aaron' Lee’s Coastlands

Quarterly Literary Review Singapore — Vol. 19, No. 2 (Apr 2020)
↳ “Spoilt for Choice”, review of Crispin Rodrigues’ The Nomad Principle

Quarterly Literary Review Singapore Vol. 21 No. 2 (Apr 2022)
↳ “Cravings in a Food-Obsessed Nation”, review of Ambrosia for the People: Hawker Centre Food by Lai Chee Kien and Koh Hong Teng


Editorial

The Hidden Papyrus of Hen-taui (2019), Wong Phui Nam
↳ Editor of the revised edition of Wong Phui Nam’s poetry collection, and author of the critical introduction.

Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet (2020)
↳ Co-editor, together with Ann Ang and Tse Hao Guang, of Singapore’s first literary anthology of food writing

SingPoWriMo Issue #8 (“With a Capital P”)
↳ Poetry editor


Interviews

Interview with NYU Shanghai

Interview with the Southwest Review — “Ecstatic Boredom: A Conversation with Daryl Lim Wei Jie”

Proust Questionnaire with Yeow Kai Chai, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore — Vol. 21, no. 1, Jan 2022