Island mountain glacier Verborgen tuinen

Island mountain glacier Verborgen tuinenAnne Vegter, translation Astrid Alben Island mountain glacier by acclaimed poet Anne Vegter is tumultuous, humorous, erotic, enigmatic and vulgar in equal measure. Written in an elastic, playful style that levels the playing field of what kinds of images carry poetic weight, the poems inhabit an incongruous space between everyday distractions and intimate, at times uncomfortable or disturbing questions. Vegter became the first female Poet Laureate of

cultures and memories that form us

radical politics and reggae rhythms

and lyric convention come in and out of relation to press upon questions of form and meaning-making

" – Lisa Robertson

Cinematic in its unfolding and lyrically explorative across multiple Englishes

and cucumber

full of correspondence and confession

Mijn wonderwall

In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed in during her youthful perambulations in 1980s Paris

'it’s time / for love / in the time / of dollar store cutlery'

De gedichten in Rampensuites zijn ontstaan in 2005-2006

Yoshimasu Gozo