LonespeechAnn Jderlund (trans. Johannes Gransson) In Lonespeech, Ann Jderlund rewires the correspondence between writers Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan into a series of stark, runic poems about the fraught act of communication and its failures. Forsaking her reputation as a baroque poet, Jderlund uses simple words and phrases in favor of an almost childlike simplicity, giving her poems, on first glance, the appearance of parables: mountains, sunlight, rivers,

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and other fictitious authors such as Antonio Mora and I

Arno van Vlierberghe

and memory

alleen in zijn gedichten

" In Smith's etchings

Hilst poses essential questions whose answers lie at the core of these poems

Zijn oeuvre is de ware werkelijkheid

and to cultures

van Mowaffk Al-Sawad en Mia You

Spoken word is de kunst om de woorden van het papier te halen en ze tot leven te brengen

” it is not without reason