Published April 11, 2021, 12:12 AM Mr. Icban never really noticed me, until I wrote a poem. I attended the 10-day Singapore Writers Festival and brought home with me this burning desire to write in verse. I used to write poetry as a kid, but I outgrew it. While working for glossy magazines, I started writing poetry again to accompany the fashion editorials or travel photographs when, instead of facts, what I would like to convey was a mood or an atmosphere—but moving to the newspaper, I had this mistaken notion that there was no room for poetry in the news, even in the lifestyle beat.