Was It for This Footwork

Was It for This FootworkHannah Sullivan Hannah Sullivans first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that books project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map our lives in space and time. But there is also the wider, collective experience to contend with, the upheaval of historic event and present disaster. Tenants, the first poem, is an elegy

Spauwen vond geen rust voor zijn verlangens

hoogst actueel en tegelijk tijdloos

and ultimately shows how poetry is an experiment for that translation Browne's exquisite collection considers language

The Belgian Surrealist movement

Tatsumi Hijikata was born in Japan in 1928

Following on from Wittgenstein 100 years later

Amanda Berenguer

where the only truly interesting books are the ones the police read

a kind of lullaby arranging the psychic terrain of my future prosodically

as Joseph Brodsky wrote

and about the crises of our century

both in the people and histories evoked in its pages and in the collaborative and unabashedly political orientation of her editorial and publishing work