Jonathan Chan is a writer, editor, and translator of poems and essays. He is the author of the poetry collections going home (Landmark, 2022) and bright sorrow (Landmark, 2025). He serves as the Managing Editor of poetry.sg and reads poetry and creative nonfiction for The Plentitudes and PR&TA.

• Criticism : Different Shades of the Colour Brown
• Criticism : Cut and press
• Criticism : All the space in the world
• Criticism : Union and Separation, and the Crow’s Bumpy Flight
• Criticism : A springtime of witness and courage
• Criticism : The Confessional: Familiarity and Defamiliarisation
• Criticism : Assuredly Californian and Land-bound
• Criticism : Shaping a Critical Disability Studies for Singapore
• Criticism : Staring deep into the ink pond
• Criticism : Poetry and artmaking out of the ordinary
• Criticism : A Complex Portrait of a Poet and Educator
• Criticism : Poetry as a necessary art of posterity
• Criticism : Loss and Discovery: The Important Reconstruction of Mervin Mirapuri’s Last Work
• Criticism : Global Asia: New Pathways for Singapore Studies
• Criticism : Fertile Birthsoil: A Translation That Binds
• Essays : Of O’Hara and Williams and Olson
• Essays : Britain’s National Anxiety and the Far East in the Early 18th Century
• Essays : Building a bouquet
• Essays : On representation
• Essays : Cultural memory and war in the poetry of Theresa Cha and Ocean Vuong
• Poetry : love and terror
• Poetry : prayer (xxi)
• Poetry : seasons
• Poetry : sound and colour
• Poetry : ash wednesday, riding downward
• Poetry : eternity
• Poetry : bare sweetness
• Poetry : art therapy
• Poetry : at the ball game
• Poetry : all i ask
• Poetry : a day of small sadnesses

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