IN/SOMNIAEtel Adnan The reader quickly notices that Adnan refrains from following the traditional subject, verb, object sentence patterns and invents semantic and lexical items throughout her book. Sometimes, Adnan creates an auditory effect by adding vowels to words like feever and stoooory. Other times, her words are separated by slashes, hyphens, brackets, asterisks, and question marks or are followed by arrows and colons rather than dashes Adnans use of

Value here is chosen conviviality

both condemned to containers allegorical and actual

” her job is not to soothe but to “revise and revise this bristling list/hourly

the paces they put us through

Tatsumi Hijikata

and the structure of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

part concrete poem about a little dead rabbit the poet found on the verge of a road

Michalis Pichler

and she waged a lifelong battle against depression

Gent’s work is a subversive excavation of how we tell stories and the Anglo-Saxon imaginary

Maar misschien is dat eigenlijk wel hetzelfde…

An April night in London