HopelessnessVerity Spott "The brilliant Verity Spott has a new book out, called Hopelessness and published by the 87 Press. The work defies categorisation: Verity is a poet, and this book is certainly poetry, but large parts are in prose form and towards the end it even takes on the structure of an absurdist play. There seems to be a loose narrative, and even recurring character voices, so Im tempted to call it a short experimental novel, in the vein of Kenneth

With incisive imagery and passionate lyricism

Jasmine Gibson's poems are a surrealist playlist drawn from the mystic and the viscerally real

De bundel bevat vooral krachtige en authentieke gedichten

Cricket-sound is absent from concrete

En met vrije momenten bedoel ik de schaarse minuten en uren die ik op het toilet en in bad doorbreng

and extrudes a variety of poems to suit this most serious situation comedy: poems as job interviews

maar bezetting

Daarmee zijn we onmiddellijk bij de omstandigheid die de aanjager is voor deze omvangrijke poëzie selectie: queerness

In the 1980s he began creating art objects engraved on copper plates and later produced photographs and video works

and then a new chain begins

Astrid Haerens

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