The Goldfish is a sumptuous, surreal exploration of femininity. The poet inhabits the voice of a goldfish through a series of linguistically experimental poems which plunge us into the glass bowl and invite us to gaze out.
Category Archive: Poetry
Yone Noguchi: The Stream of Fate is the first full-length biography of the pioneering international Japanese poet Yone Noguchi (Noguchi Yonejiro, 1875-1947).
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un\\martyred: [self-]vanishing presences in Vietnamese poetry by Nhã Thuyên, a Hanoi-based poet and critic, is a collection of essays that offers a cartography of the writing communities that have lived (and died) along the margins of Vietnam’s literary landscape since the Renovation period of the late 1980’s.
This is Rapatahana’s seventh collection of poetry. He writes in both of his main languages te reo Māori and English. Divided into five sections, these poems reflect Rapatahana’s strongly visceral style, whereby he confronts all manner of demons, ranging from intensely personal through to strongly political. His locales are international, with poems describing issues across the globe, although based primarily in Asia and Oceania.
I’ve always found the term “chapbook” off-putting. You’d think poets, being poets, could come up with a better word for what is a shorter-than-normal collection, as prose people did with “novella”.
The debut poetry book from Chinese-American writers Judy Choi and Phoenix Brown.
Sasenarine Persaud (Mawenzi House, July 2018)
Using the 2014 Scottish referendum to separate from the UK as a touchstone, this book examines the fluidity of identity and tensions regarding languages and belonging in a modern, global world where peoples, ideas and cultures migrate and interact on a scale never before seen in human history.