A Walk With My Pig

By Mervin Mirapuri

A Walk With My Pig is Mervin Mirapuri’s unfinished magnum opus, seen for the first time. He composed this poem in the period following his and his family’s migration to Australia from Singapore in the late 1980s.

Format: Paperback
Pages: 144

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The immigrant psyche – fraying thoughts, fluctuating emotions, and ranging personas – shows up the inadequacy of frameworks intended to help us find meaning amid the complexities of change. In this epic poem, the immigrant journeys between existence and obligations, mobilising the meanings of family and religion for bearing.

Through everyday snapshots and a cacophony of voices, A Walk With My Pig navigates a marketplace of relationships and transactions, bigotry, our obsession with greed, excess, status, and control. What is a life worth living? How are we shaped by opportunities presented, taken or lost? What is relevant in the overall pattern of things? A Walk With My Pig disrupts our perceptions, biases, and perspectives, what we have come to assume as norms.