Caleb Leow

Caleb Leow: Winner of the New Poets Prize 2023

We are delighted to share videos of two poems from Caleb’s pamphlet The Hoarders which was a winner of the 2023 New Poets Prize and was published earlier this year.

The Hoarders resounds with a subtle and unsettling music which creates its own complex, multilingual logic, even as Leow brings an attentive eye and an inquisitive wit to bear on a wide range of themes both personal and political. These are vivid and evocative poems which bear re-reading, and Leow is clearly a talent to watch.

– Mary Jean Chan

Caleb Leow is an emerging poet from Singapore. He won third place in the inaugural Oxford Poetry Prize (2022) and his poems have been recognised in the Bridport Prize and the National Poetry Competition. He studies History and French at the University of Oxford.


Caleb Leow reads ‘Fortune Teller Machine’

Caleb Leow reads ‘Hunger Pangs’

Watch the full online launch event with Caleb and fellow 2023 New Poets Prize winner Freya Bantiff on our YouTube channel.