I present to you the first book review for Bitter Punch. Mackerel, a lifestyle magazine founded by poet Marc Nair and Carolyn Oei, wrote a review of Bitter Punch. Do have a read! The review closes with this arresting paragraph: "Bitter Punch communicates through its play of language and form a sense of the incisive distance we have with each other in a city space. Footnotes explaining local terms at once reveal its foreign-ness while hinting at how it connects those who have a common understanding of them. [. . .] While I hesitate to point out notes of sweetness in Bitter Punch, the hardness of the poetry is tempered by the pliancy of its words, words that almost seem to revel in themselves as they look at the city."
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