He has published two collections of poetry - "Journey Poems" and "Onyx" - and a collection of personal essays titled "Felt to the Bones". He has garnered a slew of awards, primarily from his homeland's prestigious Palanca competition. The editor of "Aseano: An Anthology of Poems from Southeast Asia", Baquiran also writes film reviews for national dailies and has translated Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" and Brecht's "The Resistible Rise of Arturo" for the Filipino stage. SINGAPORE