Paolo Manalo's debut collection Jolography received the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature and the UP Diliman Gawad Tsanselor para sa Natatanging Likha ng Sining. Described by National Artist F. Sionil Jose as "poetry that is transcendental, with music and nationality," the book explored an extraordinary approach to Philippine poetry that used transliterations and code switching to reach its imaginative utterances. More than a decade later, Jolography is back in circulation – a book with more than half of its contents new in an improved sequence that demonstrates linguistic inventiveness tempered by formal skill