Singaporeans are well capable of literary feats — a 25-year-old student just composed more than 15,000 lines of rhyming couplets in the longest poem ever written here, the Straits Times reports.
University of Western Australia student Jonathan Goh is the author of Eludoran: The Legend of Lorelei in A Gest of Grave Misconceptions, a poem detailing the story of an animal princess in her quest to prove her worth to her father. Very dungeons and dragons type of stuff.
The poem was inspired by the works of J.R.R Tolkien, and took more than a year to complete.
Goh recently won the first prize for his age category in a poetry competition in Perth, where he is residing in right now. His mother was the one who submitted her son’s poem to be considered in the Singapore Book of Records.
Goh has already hired an agent in the hope to publish his poem internationally, in his own personal quest to attain global recognition.
Photo: Walt Stoneburner via Flickr
Singaporeans are well capable of literary feats — a 25-year-old student just composed more than 15,000 lines of rhyming couplets in the longest poem ever written here, the Straits Times reports.
University of Western Australia student Jonathan Goh is the author of Eludoran: The Legend of Lorelei in A Gest of Grave Misconceptions, a poem detailing the story of an animal princess in her quest to prove her worth to her father. Very dungeons and dragons type of stuff.
The poem was inspired by the works of J.R.R Tolkien, and took more than a year to complete.
Goh recently won the first prize for his age category in a poetry competition in Perth, where he is residing in right now. His mother was the one who submitted her son’s poem to be considered in the Singapore Book of Records.
Goh has already hired an agent in the hope to publish his poem internationally, in his own personal quest to attain global recognition.
Photo: Walt Stoneburner via Flickr