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PlainwaterAnne Carson The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English today." Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern traditions. Carson envisions a present day interview with a seventh century BC poet, and offers

The voices of the poem do not correspond with a succession of past

Meret Oppenheim (trans

Maxime Garcia Diaz

Filkins has made revisions to about a quarter of the translations based on his research

'Like a sculptor releasing the figure from the stone

komen onstuitbaar naar boven

Mirtha Dermisache

human beings and nature

marrying poetry with philosophy to test the boundaries of reality

or write from insomnia to see what might be discovered

shows Hilst the poet at her distilled best

Rebecca Perry