How may I address you, friend? my dearSwan with the welding seam, from the improvement worksA phantom pregnancy, extra-uterineExpecting (‘to the ending of oppression’)Which bea
Evelyn Schlag has published a wide range of critically acclaimed books in her native German (poetry, prose, short stories). So far two volumes of her poems have appeared in English
I first encountered Raoul Schrott’s poetry at the Poetry School course run by Karen Leeder. Apart from being a writer and a poet, he is also a researcher and an explorer. As a re
Reading this book is a powerful experience. For me it meant full immersion into a unique world, filled with vivid, or even lurid colours, and strong tastes and smells, both appeali
my skin is white on account of a sun allergy and because I spend my days with the curtains drawn and dream of planting a little square of garden. your narrow mouth is red from the
NEWS FROM THE GERMAN LANGUAGE 2026 AD Berlin. if it works I’ll be a field full of rapeseed, give cover to deer and shine like thirteen oil-paintings laid one on top of the other.
KIOSK BY THE SEA Freedom – and the traffic carried on. The idea Had taken hold en route. A tub of concrete Stood at the end of the jetty, no one knew why. Kiosk by the sea, this
Poetry was in the thick of the events of 1989: from the placards out on the streets to the national newspapers where Volker Braun’s ‘My Property’ crystallised the mood of a n
