The Orchid Folios finding yourself but places that evoke a

but places that evoke a sense of being and becoming

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commoditise and capitalise to their rightful absurdist end

these essays offer fresh perspectives on familiar subjects

Alane Ferguson

The Orchid Folios finding yourself but places that evoke aWritten by Mok Zining paperback A pot shatters. An arrangement falls apart. A florist finds herself amidst the scattered leaves of history. At once a poetry collection and a documentary novella, The Orchid Folios reimagines the orchid as a living, breathing document of history: a history that enmeshes the personal, colonial, linguistic, and biotechnological with the Vanda Miss Joaquim, the symbol of Singapores postcolonial hybridity. While the Orchid