EmblemLucy Mercer In ghostly conversation with the sixteenth century emblematist Andrea Alciato a witness to a lonely time the poems of this debut collection are carried forward by a non linear dream logic of metaphor and similitude, speaking pictures who remain silent and a focus on an adjacent imaginal world. As well as reusing images from Alciatos emblem book, the poems fixate on alternating relations between text and image that blur into relations

ze schetst de vernietiging van leefomgevingen en geschiedenissen

but it is true more generally of the language of poetry and therefore of poetry itself

and only time – embodied here in Lisa Robertson’s forceful cadences – can tell

door Kinderboekenambassadeurs Hans & Monique Hagen

A people's history of the poetry workshop from a poet and labour activist heralded by Adrienne Rich for 'regenerating the rich tradition of working-class literature

1979 – a series edited by Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh – this reprinted edition by London's Distance No Object (run by Luke Roberts and Amy Tobin) comes in large format and is perfect bound

Er zwermt iets van de tijdgeest door deze rijke en aantrekkelijke bundel

dat al zo lang onder wisselende bezettingen zucht

personal narrative

In the 1980s he began creating art objects engraved on copper plates and later produced photographs and video works

The island of Borneo was once the most heavily wooded in the world

Vegter became the first female Poet Laureate of the Netherlands in 2013