Hackers Astrid H. Roemer

Hackers Astrid H. RoemerAase Berg (trans. Johannes Gransson) This is a threat. Thats how Hackers, Swedish writer Aase Bergs seventh book of poetry, begins. Hackers is a furious, feminist book about wanting to hack the patriarchal systemboth in the physically violent sense and in the sense of computer hacking. But Berg also reveals the hag behind the hack, channeling the non compliant rage of Glenn Close as bunny boiler from Fatal Attraction. The world Berg hags back at is a

we realise that language -- whiplike -- casts ahead of itself a fortuitous form

In 2022 werd hij genomineerd voor de poëzieprijs van het International Literature Festival Utrecht

Menno Wigman (1966-2018) was een van de grootste en eigenzinnigste dichters van Nederland

the dinner party

This volume shows how central poetry was to Pasolini

like good meat

Laura Cescarco Eglin renders the imagery and philosophical complexity of these minimal odes with brio

but which had been upended

In the 1980s he began creating art objects engraved on copper plates and later produced photographs and video works

Premised on this peril is not a paralyzing grief but a generative poiesis of “cruel desperation

It's this up-closeness that rewards

Gent’s work is a subversive excavation of how we tell stories and the Anglo-Saxon imaginary