 Goh's first novel, "If We Dream Too Long" (1972) won the National Book Development Council of Singapore's (NBDCS) Fiction Award in 1976 and has been translated into Russian, Japanese and Tagalog.While the novel was criticised by "The Straits Times" upon publication, it enjoyed a first print run of 3,000 copies, is considered the first English-language Singaporean novel, and has been used as a Literature text in various universities.His other books include the novels "The Immolation" (1977) and "A Dance of Moths" (1995), which received the NBDCS Fiction award in 1996, and poetry collections "Eyewitness" (1976), "Lines from Batu Ferringhi" (1978) and "Bird With One Wing" (1982).