Ek't Act A.L. Snijders

Ek't Act A.L. SnijdersKlara du Plessis Acclaimed South African Canadian poet, Klara du Plessis, launches her new poetry collection, Ekt Act (Karavan Press, 2025). The title slippage between agency and being, on the one hand, and performance, on the other, is amplified in Ekt Acts homophonic play across languages. Expanding on Du Plessis earlier translingual poetry, this collection flows seamlessly between English and Afrikaans. The collection features a lyrical speaker and

coal is a document that interrogates what we do with the scattered fragments of a life

is drawn as seeds

” Vestrini is known

the poems of Recalculating take readers on a journey through the history and poetics of the decades since the end of the Cold War as seen through the lens of social and personal turbulence and tragedy

Ze vindt twee plaatsen in het lijf waar grote verlangens en gevoelens bewaard worden: de uterus

Glove Money dismisses bioessentialist gatekeeping and expands the lesbian imaginary

the house invites us to say: I will be a citizen of the world despite the world

and not as we wished or hoped

distracted when they should be listening in

the internet

In 2001 publiceerde Friederike Mayröcker een expliciet Requiem für Ernst Jandl

water and stone