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We celebrated the launch of Shivram Gopinath’s Dey on 13 November at Rasa Space—a night filled with laughter, good compa...
24/11/2025

We celebrated the launch of Shivram Gopinath’s Dey on 13 November at Rasa Space—a night filled with laughter, good company, and poetry that lit up the room 😎 Thank you to everyone who joined us for this long-awaited launch.

Special thanks to .docx .emmanuel for bringing such energy and heart to the evening, and for making it all the more memorable 🫶

Photos by .gallery

Catch Shivram, along with Samuel Caleb Wee and Mok Zining, at Goethe-Institut on 27 November, 8pm for We Make Do With English — a programme exploring what linguistic belonging looks like in a Singapore shaped by anglophone dominance and migratory movement 💬

Dey is now available on the Ethos webstore and at your favourite bookstores. 📚

🇸🇬 Stories Cross Borders 🇲🇾Ethos Books will be in Kuala Lumpur from 28-30 November 2025. Catch us at these exciting prog...
15/11/2025

🇸🇬 Stories Cross Borders 🇲🇾

Ethos Books will be in Kuala Lumpur from 28-30 November 2025. Catch us at these exciting programmes!

Look out for ticketing info at

See you there 🫶

😎 Dey Meets Georgetown Literary Festival 🇲🇾Catch Shivram Gopinath and his action-packed poetry collection Dey at Georget...
15/11/2025

😎 Dey Meets Georgetown Literary Festival 🇲🇾

Catch Shivram Gopinath and his action-packed poetry collection Dey at Georgetown Literary Festival from 29 November to 30 November!

Ticketing info at

Dey is now available at the Ethos webstore and your favourite bookstores 📖

🗣 We Make Do with English 💬What does linguistic belonging look like in a Singapore shaped by anglophone dominance and m...
14/11/2025

🗣 We Make Do with English 💬
What does linguistic belonging look like in a Singapore shaped by anglophone dominance and migratory movement?

Shivram Gopinath and Samuel Caleb Wee come together for a conversation interspersed with performance, moderated by Mok Zining, diving into the joys and challenges of writing in what Dohra Ahmad calls “rotten Englishes.”

📆: 27 November 2025
🕢: 8.00pm-9.30pm
📍: Goethe-Institut Singapore, 136 Neil Rd S(088865)
🔗: Link in bio for more info and registration

Expect linguistic acrobatics, sharp takes on language policy, rapid-fire code-switching, and general chaos.

You might have seen me on Vasantham or Culture Pass! I’m half poet, half vigilante. Come to RASA use your Culture Pass-a...
11/11/2025

You might have seen me on Vasantham or Culture Pass! I’m half poet, half vigilante. Come to RASA use your Culture Pass-a! 🔥😎🎥

Dey: Premiering Now
📆: 13 November 2025
🕢: 7.30pm-9.00pm
📍: RASA Space in Republic Plaza
🎟: Culture Pass Eligible! Ticketing link in bio |www.sistic.com.sg/events/lite_deypremiere2025

Watch scenes from the book, and Tamil cinema, come alive as you sip on RASA’s special Dey cocktail or mocktail. Featuring Shivram Gopinath with guest appearances by ArunDitha, Melizarani T. Selva, nor, and Stephanie Dogfoot!

Journey through a Hero Entry, a delicious food scene, a Heroine Entry, a Mass Song… and a bittersweet—or is it happy?—ending. Stick around to find out! 🤫

About the Book:
“Dey” is Tamil slang. A polysemic portal into community. It is “hey”, “no”, “yes”; it hails, it invites, it warns, it cajoles, it pleads, it loves. Just like Shivram Gopinath’s Dey: a cross-genre, multi- tongued celebration of diasporic desire, complaint and joy that stretches what poetry can be. Part translation, part illustration, part verse, Dey is a love child of Tamil cinema tropes and themes, Singaporean hopes and dreams. A discordant soundtrack to migrant identity, an invitation to a language game, a retort to power. Rajinikanth, Lee Kuan Yew, durian fish soup fight for your eyeballs. A thick syrupy mix, that’s what. Dey, read it.

📢 Spend your Culture Pass credits on a night of laughter, performance, and pure fun at the long-awaited launch of Shivra...
09/11/2025

📢 Spend your Culture Pass credits on a night of laughter, performance, and pure fun at the long-awaited launch of Shivram Gopinath’s poetry collection Dey! 🎥

📆 13 Nov 2025
🕢 7.30pm–9.00pm
📍 RASA Space, Republic Plaza
🎟 Ticketing link in bio | www.sistic.com.sg/events/lite_deypremiere2025

Watch scenes from the book, and Tamil cinema, come alive as you sip on RASA’s special Dey cocktail or mocktail. Featuring Shivram Gopinath with guest appearances by ArunDitha, Melizarani T. Selva, nor, and Stephanie Dogfoot!

Journey through a Hero Entry, a delicious food scene, a Heroine Entry, a Mass Song… and a bittersweet—or is it happy?—ending. Stick around to find out! 🤫

Two stories. One striking duo. ⚡The companion Sister Snake and Ministry of Moral Panic covers are now available at the E...
08/11/2025

Two stories. One striking duo. ⚡

The companion Sister Snake and Ministry of Moral Panic covers are now available at the Ethos webstore and your favourite bookstores.

Grab the Sister Editions now! (you know they’ll look great on your shelf!) ❤️‍🔥

Cover design by the talented .aoi

🎥 Dey: Premiering Now🍿After months in the editing room, Shivram Gopinath’s poetry collection Dey is finally coming to th...
05/11/2025

🎥 Dey: Premiering Now🍿

After months in the editing room, Shivram Gopinath’s poetry collection Dey is finally coming to the big stage at RASA Space. Featuring Shivram Gopinath, with guest appearances by ArunDitha, Melizarani T. Selva, nor and Stephanie Dogfoot, this performance brings to life a reel of scenes straight out of the book’s pages and out of Tamil cinema.

🍸Sip on RASA’s cocktail or mocktail special for Dey as we zip through a Hero Entry, a delicious food scene, a Heroine Entry, a Mass Song and a bittersweet Sad Ending…Or is it a Happy Ending?

You’ll have to stick around to find out 🤫

📆: 13 November 2025
🕢: 7.30pm-9.00pm
📍: RASA Space in Republic Plaza
🎟: Culture Pass Eligible‼️Ticketing link in bio |www.sistic.com.sg/events/lite_deypremiere2025

“Dey” is Tamil slang. A polysemic portal into community. It is “hey”, “no”, “yes”; it hails, it invites, it warns, it cajoles, it pleads, it loves. Just like Shivram Gopinath’s Dey: a cross-genre, multi- tongued celebration of diasporic desire, complaint and joy that stretches what poetry can be. Part translation, part illustration, part verse, Dey is a love child of Tamil cinema tropes and themes, Singaporean hopes and dreams. A discordant soundtrack to migrant identity, an invitation to a language game, a retort to power. Rajinikanth, Lee Kuan Yew, durian fish soup fight for your eyeballs. A thick syrupy mix, that’s what. Dey, read it.

🤫 The stage is almost set 🍿After months in the editing room, Dey is ready to take the big stage— reeling through poetry,...
31/10/2025

🤫 The stage is almost set 🍿

After months in the editing room, Dey is ready to take the big stage— reeling through poetry, performance, and Tamil cinema. Featuring Shivram Gopinath, with guest appearances by ArunDitha, Melizarani T. Selva, nor and Stephanie Dogfoot. Save the date. More details to be revealed soon! 🍸

📆: 13 November 2025
🕢: 7.30pm-9.00pm
📍: RASA Space in Republic Plaza

“Dey” is Tamil slang. A polysemic portal into community. It is “hey”, “no”, “yes”; it hails, it invites, it warns, it cajoles, it pleads, it loves. Just like Shivram Gopinath’s Dey: a cross-genre, multi- tongued celebration of diasporic desire, complaint and joy that stretches what poetry can be. Part translation, part illustration, part verse, Dey is a love child of Tamil cinema tropes and themes, Singaporean hopes and dreams. A discordant soundtrack to migrant identity, an invitation to a language game, a retort to power. Rajinikanth, Lee Kuan Yew, durian fish soup fight for your eyeballs. A thick syrupy mix, that’s what. Dey, read it.

Curious about the creative life? Join Singapore Literature Prize winner Josephine Chia as she answers questions on writi...
29/10/2025

Curious about the creative life? Join Singapore Literature Prize winner Josephine Chia as she answers questions on writing and creativity—from how to stay inspired and overcome writer’s block, to whether one can make a living as a writer in Singapore and what it really takes to write a book.

📅: 2 November 2025 (Sunday)
🕓: 4.00pm – 5.30pm
📍: Grassroots Book Room, 25 Bukit Pasoh Rd, S(089839)
[2 min walk from Outram Park MRT exit 4]
🔗 in bio for more info and to register!

Author of Kampong Spirit—Gotong Royong, Goodbye My Kampong! and Ayam Buah Keluak and the Art of Writing, Josephine first immersed readers in her childhood kampong of Potong Pasir and continues to share her reflections on how to live creatively, even amid adversity.

With a new edition of Kampong Spirit just released, join the storied author for an intimate chat on what her years of writing have taught her, and how she has turned her childhood, heritage and challenges into creative fuel

Kampong Spirit—Gotong Royong and more titles by Josephine Chia are available on our webstore 📚

🌟Ministry of Moral Panic returns ‼️After 12 years since its first publication, ’s iconic title is back with a bold new ...
25/10/2025

🌟Ministry of Moral Panic returns ‼️

After 12 years since its first publication, ’s iconic title is back with a bold new cover. Drop by to celebrate this modern classic and meet the vibrant author herself! 🥀

📅: 8 November 2025 (Saturday)
🕓: 2.00pm – 3.00pm
📍: Kinokuniya Singapore Main Store, Takashimaya S.C Level 4

Heartfelt and sexy, the stories of Amanda Lee Koe encompass a skewed world fraught with prestige anxiety, moral relativism, sexual frankness and the improbable necessity of human connection. Told in strikingly original prose, these are fictions that plough, relentlessly, the possibilities of understanding Singapore and her denizens discursively, off-centre.

Ministry of Moral Panic will be available on 8 Nov on the Ethos webstore and at your favourite bookstores 📚

💫 Join us for an intimate afternoon with award-winning author Josephine Chia! 🌿Following the release of the new edition ...
17/10/2025

💫 Join us for an intimate afternoon with award-winning author Josephine Chia! 🌿

Following the release of the new edition of Kampong Spirit, Josephine Chia reflects on what her years of writing have taught her, and how she has turned her childhood, heritage and challenges into creative fuel.

📅: 2 November 2025 (Sunday)
🕓: 4.00pm – 5.30pm
📍: Grassroots Book Room, 25 Bukit Pasoh Rd, S(089839)
[2 min walk from Outram Park MRT exit 4]
🔗 in bio for more info and to register!

The storied author first immersed readers in her childhood kampong of Potong Pasir with her memoir Kampong Spirit—Gotong Royong, which won the Singapore Literature Prize for non-fiction and was followed by its sequel Goodbye My Kampong!

Besides her novels that draw on her Peranakan heritage, Ayam Buah Keluak and the Art of Writing shares her reflections on living creatively, even amid adversity.

Kampong Spirit—Gotong Royong and more titles by Josephine Chia are available on our webstore 📚

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