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Find out about Poetry on Platforms: Poems on Singapore.

Last updated 13 August 2026
A subway platform with glass doors, caution signs, and red posters with text in a foreign language.
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Colorful cityscape and train platform illustrations with text "Poetry on Platforms; Poems on Singapore, 16 July - 13 August 2015."
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  • 16 July 2015 – 13 August 2015

  • City Hall MRT Platforms

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Immerse yourself in 82 Singapore poems written beautifully by poets on the City Hall MRT platforms. Commuters and passer-by can look forward to humorous, moving and thought-provoking poems on life, people, and places in Singapore that will strike a chord with them

Commuters are required to pay applicable fare upon entry and exit from fare gates at SMRT stations.

Illustration of a blue typewriter on a yellow background with a paper showing "Poetry"; text reads "READ! FEST 2015".
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Be a Poetry on Platforms Star Poet Contest

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  • 16 July 2015 – 13 August 2015

Anyone can be a poet. Pen an original poem and submit to POP@nlb.gov.sg to receive a commemorative EZ- Link card.

*Limited to the first 150 original poems received during the stated period. Limited to one EZ-Link per individual

Terms and conditions apply. For more information, please visit www.nlb.gov.sg/readsingapore.

Programme has ended, registration is closed.

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