Switch: The Complete CatullusCatullus (translated by Isobel Williams) During the latter phases of Covid, Isobel Williams completed her celebrated translations of the polyamorous ancient Roman poet Catullus. The poems that proved impossible when she prepared Shibari Carmina, published to acclaim in 2021, finally surrendered to her. 'Translating Catullus has been, for me, like cage fighting with two opponents, not just A Top Poet, but the schoolgirl I was, trained to show the

Schaduw en plaats

One of the most unheralded poets in literature

With depth and breadth

he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning

is polyvalent in its voice and range

Now side by side with Desnos's French

a Japanese form of rope bondage with its own knotty terminology

maar ook lezers gefascineerd door het twee-spel tussen beeld en woord

marwin vos

In 2015 sloot de linkse Utrechtse boekhandel De Rooie Rat zijn deuren

juxtaposing the hunger for flight with the longing for family and home

' Susan Howe embodies that art in her My Emily Dickinson