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Seng Goh-Poh 1936 - 2010 (74)

there are days ahead, Days to be fulfilled With just a soft, soft wind Filling the space of dreams.


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Goh Poh Seng ( July 1936 – 10 January 2010) was a Singaporean poet, dramatist, novelist and doctor; he was born in Kuala Lumpur, at that time, in British Malaya,. He was educated at Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur and received his medical degree from University College Dublin. He began writing poetry while studying medicine; he published his first poems in the university magazine. He returned in 1961 to Singapore and practiced medicine for 25 years. At the same time he wrote plays, poems and novels.

Seng held many honorary positions including the Chairman of the National Theatre Trust Board between 1967 and 1972, and Vice-Chairman of the Arts Council from 1967 to 1973. He was committed to the development of Art and cultural policies of post-independent Singapore, as well as the development of cultural institutions such as the Singapore National Symphony, the Chinese Orchestra and the Singapore Dance Company.

He was the founder of the literary magazine ‘Tumasek’ and co-founded Singapore's first multi-disciplinary arts centre, Centre 65, to promote the arts. He immigrated to Canada in 1986. In 2007, he returned to Singapore for the last time to attend the Singapore Writers Festival.

He died on 10 January 2010 in Vancouver, after suffering from Parkinson's disease in his later years.