Anthologies. This section contains anthologies of literary works or “creative writing” by Singaporeans compiled, edited and published locally, as well as anthologies which include Singaporean works but were compiled, edited and published abroad. Others (usually anthologies from the 1950s to early1970s) may be compilations of both Singapore and Malayan/ Malaysian writing (eg, Thumboo’s The Second Tongue: an Anthology of Poetry from Malaysia and Singapore, 1976) because Singapore was once considered part of Malaya and subsequently was once part of Malaysia, the writing in English being thereby linked historically.
