The Following Scan Will Last Five MinutesLieke Marsman In The Cancer Journals Audre Lorde wrote, "I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilise into yet another silence, not to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and examined." Founded on this same principle, The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes was written in the three months following Dutch writer Lieke Marsmans cancer diagnosis. A series of short poems anchored

en aan het Zich bezingende Het (‘Dit is een handreiking

er zijn burchten

And what is the subject but a stitching

This is truly revolutionary poetry

In de 5e eeuw schreef een anonieme dichter in wonderlijk Grieks een gedicht waarin Orpheus zelf over zijn avonturen vertelt

built from the choices we make now - how we might learn our own cures and 'go where there is love'

Klein dood konijn is bedoeld voor poëzielezers

depicting The Magic Apple Tree (c

singing—as a ‘battered woman’ from a working-class neighborhood

occasional works written over fifteen years

zoekt jou is een drieluik

small white monkeys is a fragmented essay