Tantrums in AirEmily Skillings "These poems are stitched with lush, unforeseen textures and unexhausted time. They make the ghost of John Keats smile in ecstasy. Raymond Roussel would have kept this collection under his pillow." Lucy Ives Emily Skillings highly anticipated second collection of poems, Tantrums in Air, is a wild romp through verbal reality, marking her as one of contemporary poetry's shining stars of humor, insight and edge. It follows her first

Writhing with sensitivity and tumult

uit schaamte voor hun voorgeschiedenis als mens

' – Kristin Dykstra

not to stake a claim or to fasten themselves

language attrition and the ideological capture of literature

according to Ammiel Alcalay

The project received a grant from the Japan Foundation

they transformed her

the future

Thomas Möhlmann

In Marshmallow maken we kennis met een hond

kreeg diens werk een plaats in Geert van Istendaels Top 5 van De Morgen’s recensenten