PENNED IN THE MARGINS

(P/B) FUTURES
"Futures" features some of the most daring new voices in Greek poetry, together with international poets with Greek connections. These bold, impassioned and critically aware texts stake new poetic and political ground: they articulate what it means to live in a time when capitalism is buckling under its own weight and new ways of living and thinking seem to be emerging. In a time of crisis, "Futures" calls for solidarity, resistance and poetry as a political paradigm. (From the publisher) ...the gouged marble, the graffiti scrawls, ...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) NOTES ON THE SONNETS
Luke Kennard recasts Shakespeare's 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party. A physicist explains dark matter in the kitchen. A crying man is consoled by a Sigmund Freud action figure. An out-of-hours doctor sells phials of dark red liquid from a briefcase. Someone takes out a guitar. Wry, insolent and self-eviscerating, Notes on the Sonnets riddles the Bard with the anxieties of the modern age, bringing Kennard's affectionate critique to subjects as various as love, marriage, God, metaphysics and...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...