Tag: Poems
Poems by Josef Guggenmos, newly illustrated – Culture
On July 2, 2022, Josef Guggenmos, one of the most important children’s poets in German literature, would have turned 100. But his poems stay forever young, just think of what…
Tomas Venclova’s collection of poems “Variation on the theme of awakening” – Culture
The memory – maybe it’s not just a searching movement, but also its own, wafer-thin layer in which the moments of the past are collected. An “invisible sphere”, as Tomas…
Ilya Kaminsky book of poems “Republic of Deafness”. Review. – Culture
The Ukrainian-American poet Ilya Kaminsky draws images from the depths of his memory that are eerily attached to those of the war in Ukraine. And he celebrates a special form…
Augusta Laar’s volume of poems about sleep – Munich
Who does not know them, the involuntarily awake nights in which you toss and turn from left to right and back again, try to breathe away the stress mindfully and…
Judith Zander’s poems: “in the country summer in winter at sea” – culture
In our current years of crisis and war, there is an oppressive amount of talk about freedom. Under such circumstances, it takes a free spirit for freedom to come back…
Series “1972 – the year that remains”: The poems of Nicolas Born – culture
Of Hilmar Klute The title alone arouses curiosity about fabulously beautiful worlds. One would like to start immediately and recommend this bright, powerful idea to humanity weighed down by toil,…
The first book of poems by Kathrin Niemela – Munich
“The world out there is waiting / not for words – waiting for change,” wrote Kathrin Niemela in September 2017 in Café La Poesía in Buenos Aires – whether in…
Albert Ostermaier’s volume of poems “Teer” – Culture
The matte black cover has the word “Teer” written in shiny black capital letters, so it’s not without reason that one expects something a little darker between the covers. Something…
The Ukrainian poet Halyna Petrosanyak and her band “Exophonien” – Kultur
you shouldn’t fight back that is outdated say the neighbors to her those to whom to get closer she tried You shall don’t moan and certainly not howl while you…
The poetess Johanne Charlotte Unzer and her “joke poems” culture
In the 18th century the desire for immortality was rampant. He was no longer bound by the idea of the soul surviving death. Printer’s ink competed with the sky, the…