Inspector Inspector struggles with the legacies of fathers, personal, poetic and political. Threaded through the erotic poems and poems based on interviews with fellow Singaporeans living in America are thirteen palinodes in the voice of the speaker's dead father, which he answers when the father's voice falls silent.
Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet), named a Best Book of the Year by UK's Financial Times and a Finalist by Lambda Literary. His work of hybrid fiction Snow at 5 PM: Translations of an insignificant Japanese poet is the winner of the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction. Inspector Inspector is his second Carcanet book.
