Death Row Literature: A Collection of Poems

Death Row Literature: A Collection of PoemsEach poem in Death Row Literature was written by Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, a Malaysian on death row in Changi Prison for more than a decade. Pannir wrote while sitting on the cold floor, with no table or chair, using a pile of old court documents as his desk and only a few sheets of paper and he had no pen to hold, only the bare ink refill, gripped in hand, to shape his words. These poems are born from unimaginable pain the kind that comes from living

not only because many sympathized with his philosophical writings

nationalism and unreason lay in the past

along with new poems written after October 2023

In Love and Saint Augustine

including disease

She realises that she has found a way out of her endless autumn

it’s one thing winning a prize in life’s lottery

At a time when the noise of religious conflict and the clash of civilisations threatens to become deafening

In his penetrating surveys of poetic form and the literary milieu of the day

and read a rhetoric shaded to ironies

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