The Lover's Inventory is a poetry collection by the Singaporean poet Cyril Wong inventorying objects, places, sensations, and other memorabilia that serve as springboards for memory and philosophical insight; its Confessional verse "confesses without dreary interrogation...in which masks slip on and off in pure, poetic theatre", while the poetry's openness has been transformed into "a defiant act against cultural hypocrisy."Singapore Unbound. Retrieved 1 January 2018. The book is "a self-portrait built out of an inventory of intimacies", offering "a critical and tender exploration of how love and sex both help and prevent us from fully understanding ourselves and each other."Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Retrieved 8 January 2019. The book received the Singapore Literature Prize for English poetry in 2016.TODAY. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
See also Singapore gay literature Cyril Wong
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