Soul HouseMireille Gansel, translation Joan Seliger Sidney In the first book of her poetry to appear in English, acclaimed French Jewish poet, translator, and translation theorist Mireille Gansel crisscrosses time and extends hospitality to exiled poets and peoples in her quest to recreate a lost literary and spiritual home. Gansel opens this meditative volume of prose poems with an epigraph from Gaston Bachelard: 'against all odds, the house invites us to say:

Dionne Brand

In the tradition of literary “outlaws” such as Kathy Acker

A series of short poems anchored by an essay that speaks directly to Lorde’s journal entries and personal reflections on cancer

waarmee we vervolgens ontkomen aan het besef van terminaal geboren worden

Meret Oppenheim (trans

is now an internationally studied work of autobiography

” in which readings of the texts were recorded

Kees Stip (1913–2001) studeerde klassieke letteren en debuteerde als onderduiker in 1943 met ‘Dieuwertje Diekema’

available for the first time in the UK

We vroegen een zevental schrijvers uit Vlaanderen en Nederland om te reageren op de door de redactie geselecteerde teksten uit het archief

the only poems to undo matter and matter's semolina mango afore the great splatter

It is a report that remains as disheartening as it is damning