Mistranslations from a Future Vernacular is a poetry collection that asks ‘How many times can you rewrite a poem?’ Using the experimental techniques of the Oulipo group and more allegedly modern technologies, Daryl Lim rewrites a poem over and over again, to exhaustion, exhilaration, and states in between. Daryl collages text. He shadow-boxes with LLMs. He paints. He translates profanely. This boundaryless, genre-bending journey mixes up the signifier and the signified, the source and the target. Buckle up.
First edition, October 2025
Softcover with dust jacket and saddle-stitched binding, 112 pages
120 × 190 mm
Offset printed with special silver ink on certified, environmentally friendly papers
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Daryl Lim Wei Jie 林伟杰 is a poet, editor, and translator from Singapore. His previous book of poetry, Anything but Human, was a finalist for the Singapore Literature Prize. He is the editor of several books, including Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet, which won a Special Award at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards; The Second Link: An Anthology of Malaysian and Singaporean Writing, which was shortlisted for Best Literary Work at the Singapore Book Awards. He is currently working on Free to Play, an anthology on video gaming. He won the Young Artist Award in 2023, Singapore’s highest honour for young arts practitioners.
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Mistranslations from a Future Vernacular is edited by Almer Mikhail and published under the Double Take series by Further Reading.
