8 AUGUST 2016 I. Looking for reasons to stay Eilam, I said to my year-old son as he ate corn on the cob and a golden ray of October sun illuminated them both. Eilam, look at me for a minute, we have to think about how to get out of this country. He went on eating with the complacent abandon of someone who doesn’t grasp the situation. People who don’t grasp the situation must be really happy, I thought. Want some grapes?
The poet considers emigration, money and melancholy
8 AUGUST 2016 I. Looking for reasons to stay Eilam, I said to my year-old son as he ate corn on the cob and a golden ray of October sun illuminated them both. Eilam, look at me for a minute, we have to think about how to get out of this country. He went on eating with the complacent abandon of someone who doesn’t grasp the situation. People who don’t grasp the situation must be really happy, I thought. Want some grapes?
Daniel Oz
(Israel, 1978)
Poet and musician “Daniel Oz has a charming awkwardness about him”, according to an Israeli interviewer, that “of someone who isn’t endowed with sharp elbows [...] It took some time [five years] until he managed to publish …
(Israel, 1978)
Poet and musician “Daniel Oz has a charming awkwardness about him”, according to an Israeli interviewer, that “of someone who isn’t endowed with sharp elbows [...] It took some time [five years] until he managed to publish …
Tahel Frosh
(Israel, 1977)
Tahel Frosh has achieved local media notoriety by writing poems about all too common socio-economic ills. With a law degree from Hebrew University and one in clinical psychology from Tel Aviv University, she is currently a doctoral student in …
(Israel, 1977)
Tahel Frosh has achieved local media notoriety by writing poems about all too common socio-economic ills. With a law degree from Hebrew University and one in clinical psychology from Tel Aviv University, she is currently a doctoral student in …
An interview with Tahel Frosh
Tahel Frosh has managed to break out of the built-in marginality of the poetry world: a combination of the solid quality of her work and the sharp socio-economic statement it makes have brought her to center stage in [the financial media - print, …
Tahel Frosh has managed to break out of the built-in marginality of the poetry world: a combination of the solid quality of her work and the sharp socio-economic statement it makes have brought her to center stage in [the financial media - print, …
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Sonja vom Brocke (Germany)
SONAR’S SUPPER OF WRATH
Sonja vom Brocke (Germany)
»I am boarded in – and they are juggling!« you pile the bats …
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Ann Vickery (Australia)
AUTUMNAL HOOK
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Remco Campert (Netherlands)
LAMENT
Remco Campert (Netherlands)
Here now along the long deep water that I thought that I thought …
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Liu Waitong (China)
THE MISSING
Liu Waitong (China)
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