Contents :- Acknowledgements- About the contributors- 1. Common lines and city spaces: introduction- 2. The transformation of objects into things in Arthur Yap's poetry- 3. "The same tableau, intrinsically still": Arthur Yap, poet-painter- 4. "Go to Bedok, you bodoh": Arthur Yap's mapping of Singaporean space- 5. On places and spaces: the possibilities of teaching Arthur Yap- 6. Arthur Yap's ecological poetics of the daily- 7. "Except for a word": Arthur Yap's unspoken homoeroticism- 8. "A long way from what?": folkways and social commentary in Arthur Yap's short stories- Index