D/O is for everyone who has ever left home and still carries it in their body.
Join us for the launch of D/O, the debut poetry collection by Yashmita D/O Ananthan. The afternoon will feature readings and conversations with Jaryl George Solomon on memory, migration, love, and the ongoing process of making new homes for ourselves. These are poems about figuring shit out. About falling apart and rebuilding. About learning how to belong to yourself while still belonging to others.
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EVENT DETAILS
🗓️ 4 July, 4.30–5.30 pm (doors open 4.15 pm)
📍 The COUP Bar, 7 Ann Siang Hill, Singapore 069791
🎙️ In conversation with Jaryl George Solomon
🧋 Each ticket comes with a complimentary drink! And if the poems hit too hard, alcoholic options are available with a top-up at the venue 😉
Books will be available for purchase at a special launch discount (cashless payment only)
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ABOUT THE COLLECTION
D/O is a book about growing up in motion—leaving home, missing people, falling apart, and starting again. But also knowing that you never fully forget where you came from, or the people you belong to. This debut collection by Yashmita D/O Ananthan explores all that we are daughters of: playlists, hometown glories, 2020s kismet, and the histories we carry in our bodies. Through poems that move, shift and loop, D/O traces love, memory, and girlhood as unfinished states, alongside the work of making new homes and figuring shit out. Come relish a voice that is at once diaristic and admonishing, incandescent and clear.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Yashmita D/O Ananthan (b. 2003) is a poet and undergraduate student in English and Creative Writing, and Sociology at Murdoch University. She grew up in Singapore and now lives in Perth. Yashmita’s poems dwell in family, friendship, intimacy, memory, and the body, shaped by a past both unruly and irradiant, and irrevocably altered by the solitary act of leaving home to inhabit the unfamiliar. D/O is her debut in print.
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📍Venue: The COUP Bar
🏢 Address: 7 Ann Siang Hill, Singapore 069791
🗓️ Date: Saturday, 4 July 2026
🕛 Time: 4.30 pm - 5.30 pm
🎟️ Tickets: https://www.sistic.com.sg/events/lite_daughteroflaunch2026