Exhausted on the CrossNajwan Darwish We drag histories behind us, the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish writes in Exhausted on the Cross, here where theres neither land nor sky. In pared down lines, brilliantly translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu Zeid, Darwish records what Ral Zurita describes as something immemorial, almost unspeakablea poetry driven by a moral imperative to be a colossal record of violence and, at the same time, the no less colossal record of

and as characters that take up residence between the thick border zones of language

In Diepe eb wordt een weg afgelegd

” respectively

In 2020 won Marieke Lucas Rijneveld de International Booker Prize voor The Discomfort of Evening (De avond is ongemak)

the Cuban revolution

this book surveys Holly Melgard’s formally experimental poetic works produced between 2008 and 2023

als de poëzie van Van Strijtem

a grammar of loss

” Where you become aware of something only as it & you become something else that disappears

mijn middeleeuwse herinneringen

met prachtige natuurbeschrijvingen waaruit de ongebroken liefde spreekt voor zijn land

As Francis writes