Very Kind Of You To Drop By
Reviews and articles on A Field Guide to Supermarkets in Singapore
From Cha, issue 47:
“In A Field Guide, we encounter perhaps the most innovative, consummate, satisfyingly difficult and distinctive voice to date in the Ten Year series. This collection in its fresh arresting imagery reveals a new poet assured, deftly doing poetry.” – Angus Whitehead
From The Manchester Review, December 2017:
“Somehow the products know more, and feel more, than we do.” – Natasha Stallard
From The Business Times, 23 December 2016:
“The poetry debut of the year belongs to Lee, a young writer with a gift for transforming passing moments into philosophical inquiries. Tiny observations lead into infinite mysteries, small incidents become solar flares. Lee's precise control of language and lyric interiority put you right there in the picture where you wish you could stay longer than the length of the poem allows.” – Helmi Yusof
From The Straits Times, 21 August 2018:
“Poet Samuel Lee likes supermarkets. He frequents them four to five times a week. There is something ‘inherently funny’ about them, he says . . .” – Olivia Ho
