Ephemera. This section contains an otherwise unclassifiable form of publication. These ephemeral slim programmes, mostly stapled booklets of mimeographed pages, are historically important, unique products of the literary circumstances of the time when the literary scene was young and publication opportunities few. In them will be found in print, poems read at literary and cultural events by then emerging and/or young unpublished, but now established writers like Goh Poh Seng, Arthur Yap, Lee Tzu Pheng and others, alongside those of eminent poet D.J. Enright and the young Paul Theroux who was to achieve international acclaim as fiction and travel writer. Enright was Head of the English Dept. and Theroux a lecturer at the then University of Singapore. Known to and some owned by the compiler who was present on these occasions, these programmes are included to alert readers to the existence of some in the Singapore Malaysia Collection of NUS library, and others in the Singapore National Library, but both have incomplete holdings. Efforts are being made to solicit donations to fill in the gaps.
