Eddie Tay is from Singapore and is currently based in Hong Kong. His first book of poetry, Remnants, consists of renditions of mythic and colonial history of Malaya as well as a homage to the Tang Dynasty poets Li Po, Tu Fu and Li Ho. His second volume of poetry, A Lover's Soliloquy, extends his interests in Tang Dynasty poetry th.rough renditions of the erotic poetry of Li Shang-yin. It also explores in the language of eroticism the modern city life. The poems here are taken from Tay's second volume