The Testament of Cresseid & Seven FablesRobert Henryson (trans. Seamus Heaney) The greatest of the late medieval Scots makars, Robert Henryson was influenced by their vision of the frailty and pathos of human life, and by the inherited poetic example of Geoffrey Chaucer. Henryson's finest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of Scots literature, is the narrative 'Testament of Cresseid'. Set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, the Testament completes the story of Chaucer's Troilus

maar ook een put in het tafelblad slaat

The Big Nada

enchantment and visionariness

Kan iemand die slaapt eigenlijk wel schrijven

a golden young man

and any saccharine-laced lie that parades itself as the only available truth

voor jong en oud

recurrence

” In this Nion Editions chapbook

and the self communicate and coexist through a process of mutual healing and imagination

Stanley Schtinter’s debut collection

De verzen zijn vloeiend vertaald door Nisrine Mbarki & Kees Nijland