Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?Mahmoud Darwish, translation Jeffrey Sacks At once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Darwishs intertwined poems are collective cries, songs, and glimpses of the human condition. Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? is a poetry of myth and history, of exile and suspended time, of an identity bound to his displaced people and to the rich Arabic language. Darwishs poems specific and symbolic, simple and profound

In Nederland wordt zijn werk nog niet breed gedragen

Bloem en Nijhoff tot Marsman

and Arcadian Boutique (Punto de partida: Mexico

sounding a singular diphthong at once cosmic and quasi-comic

and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death

Dubbed the 'New Cross Massacre'

What the owl thinks about me

Sjeng Scheijen is schrijver en cultuurhistoricus

rijmende raadsels

“schrijfsels” die hem inzicht brengen en helpen om goed voor zijn ziel te zorgen

and somehow polite poems explore what it can be like to be a woman and to slither through and away from threat to find voice and form and power

published to acclaim in 2021