Tremble Finisterra

Tremble FinisterraFatema Abdoolcarim Tremble, Fatema Abdoolcarims debut collection of poems, is an intimate and involving sequence on fertility and faith. A memoir in verse, these poems relate encounters with the animal other, the uncertain, but always echoing the tender rituals of family, food, prayer. Abdoolcarim thinks through what it means to care and to mother at a time where atrocity makes those systems of loving seem out of reach. Tremble traces the sensual and

to use the rhythms of her own body as a means of understanding and connecting to the rhythms of the river’s body of water

creating a hopeful lyric in spaces of private and global loss

Kan iemand die slaapt eigenlijk wel schrijven

dataficatie en kunstmatige intelligentie

involuntary spasms

and over the years her circle of friends included Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

promiscuity and violence

The ambitious and astonishing debut poetry collection by Timmy Straw

With spare lines and simple language

De missie van Poëzie is een Daad: meer poëzie in ieders leven

This book marks a moment of huge significance in world poetry

by Samuel Palmer