About Love, Echoing On by Sanjay C Kuttan and Rosaly Puthucheary 

Love, Echoing On is a mother-son compilation of works, featuring Sanjay C Kuttan’s odes to his wife, and Rosaly Puthucheary’s revisitation of “Dance On His Doorstep”, her book-length sequence of cantos first published more than 30 years ago.

Love, Echoing On is a poetic dialogue between Rosaly Puthucheary and Sanjay C Kuttan, mother and son. Across two distinct but intertwined voices, the collection explores how love endures, transforms, and reverberates across generations. Through echo and response, each poem becomes both offering and reflection, an act of listening as much as speaking. What emerges is two writers meeting in language to contemplate tenderness, inheritance, and the quiet ways affection survives time

About the Authors:

Sanjay C Kuttan (b. 1964) was born in Johor Baru, Malaysia. He moved to Singapore in 1980, where he studied at St Joseph’s Institution, and went on to complete his PhD in Pharmacology at the National University of Singapore in 1992. He spent much of his working life in the energy and maritime industries, under the employment of ExxonMobil, McKinsey & Company, Nanyang Technological University, the Energy Market Authority (Singapore), the Singapore Maritime Institute, and the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation. He now consults under his own advisory, Kai Gaia International Advisory.

He is also the author of the poetry collections Where Fires Rage (2010), In One Breath—an anthology of pseudohaiku (2021), Under the Spell of Flickering Lights (2022) and Quilted Sails—an anthology of four voyaging poets (2023), co-authored with Roslina Chai, Dinesh Senan and Kirpal Singh. His work has been published in journals such as Men Matters Online Journal and Borderless Journal, and anthologies such as Places and Spaces (2024) and Balik Kampung 3C (2016). His mother is the writer Rosaly Puthucheary.

A Singaporean with roots in Johor Baru, Rosaly Puthucheary (b. 1936) started teaching in Malaysia in 1957. She came to Singapore to teach after graduating from University of Singapore in 1973. She went on to teach English Literature in many schools in Singapore, and finally taught in Anglo-Chinese Junior College from 1984 to 2001 before retiring. She then pursued her doctorate and was conferred a Doctor of Philosophy from the National University of Singapore in 2006.

Rosaly Puthucheary writes widely across poetry and prose, including volumes of memoir and criticism. Her earliest titles include Pillow Your Dreams (1978), The Fragmented Ego (1978) and Dance on His Doorstep (1992); her most recent titles include The Call to Poetry: Poems from Pre-independence Singapore (2021), My Father’s Untold Story (2021), and rib/cage: ALLTHETIME 01 (2025), a folio of poetry co-authored with ArunDitha and Zeha.

About rib/cage: ALLTHETIME 01 by Rosaly Puthucheary, ArunDitha and Zeha

Pounding beneath rib/cage is a visceral struggle for selfhood and belonging. These poems shatter through the suffocating grip of silence and constraint. These are words carved into verse as sharp as bone—voiced into the stillness of night.

Within the pages of AFTERIMAGE’s first ALLTHETIME folio lies a collection spanning five decades. This chorus of voices across time confront unyielding questions about alienation and autonomy, reminding us that the fight remains as fierce as ever. Let these lines take root in your breath; we dare you to recite them with your whole damn chest.

About the Authors

Rosaly Puthucheary (b. 1936) started teaching in Malaysia in 1957. She came to Singapore to teach after graduating from University of Singapore in 1973. She went on to teach English Literature in many schools in Singapore, and finally taught in Anglo-Chinese Junior College from 1984 to 2001 before retiring. She then pursued her doctorate and was conferred a Doctor of Philosophy from the National University of Singapore in 2006. Rosaly Puthucheary writes widely across poetry and prose, including volumes of memoir and criticism.

ArunDitha (b. 1988) is a goddess-worshipping performance artist, writer and facilitator working between poetry, sound and the dramatic arts. She has performed poetry, music and experimental dramatic work locally and at festivals worldwide. ArunDitha has been resident writer/artist at Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, The Watermill Center NY, The Marpha Foundation Nepal. Her co-creations have been commissioned by the The Esplanade, the Goethe-Institut and the Barcelona International Poetry Festival. She currently sings/loops with Mantravine, and co-organises at Opens, a para-academic forum. Her work has been published by Penguin Random House, The Straits Times and Ethos Books, to name a few.

Zeha (b. 2000) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose performance work centres around the relationships between family, queerness, ethnicity, familiarity and reconciliation. They enjoy the malleability of language and construct / deconstruct the Malay and English languages to paint soundscapes and conjure microscopic imagery. rib/cage marks their debut in print.