The SelkieMorgan V Morgan V's fascinating and highly original debut, The Selkie, is organized into three linked sections: animated by jokes, confusion, existential horror and banality, often revealing the gaps in understanding that tangle this string of vignettes. In an outdoor market, we meet an unlikely hero in The Monger, buying and selling fish from his stall while the poems around him touch on topics of racial capitalism, cultural ties to animals and food,

Even though it’s still a boldly experimental piece

yet politically disquieting in their revelations

’” Her remarkable essay “Bird Rider” explains: “I came to write Phantom Pain Wings after Daddy passed away

Opmaak met ruitjes

In 2005 kreeg de dichter de Europese Literatuurprijs en in 2006 de Prijs Reina Sofía voor Spaanse en Latijns-Amerkiaanse poëzie

of is het een wak

“here / where there’s neither land / nor sky

and insect infestations spreading within artwork

” Where you become aware of something only as it & you become something else that disappears

“Cary Grant’s Wedding

Daive's memoir sensitively conjures a portrait of a man tormented by both his mind and his medical treatment but who nonetheless remained a generous friend and a poet for whom writing was a matter of life and death

confessional frankness and fiery passion