Mistranslations from a Future Vernacular
Mistranslations from a Future Vernacular is a poetry collection that asks 'How many times can you rewrite a poem?' Using the experimental techniques of the Oulipo group and more allegedly modern technologies, Daryl Lim rewrites a poem over and over again, to exhaustion, exhilaration, and states in between. Daryl collages text. He shadow-boxes with LLMs. He paints. He translates profanely. This boundaryless, genre-bending journey mixes up the signifier and the signified, the source and the target. Buckle up.
Further Reading Press, 2025
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Daryl Lim Wei Jie
Daryl Lim Wei Jie is an award-winning poet, editor, translator and critic from Singapore. His collections of poetry include Mistranslations from a Future Vernacular (2025) and Anything but Human (2021), the latter shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize. He conceptualised and co-edited the celebrated anthologies Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet (2020), and The Second Link: An Anthology of Malaysian and Singaporean Writing (2023). In 2023, he received the Young Artist Award, Singapore's highest honour for artists under 35.
