Marion Poschmann (Essen, 1969) writes poems in which unsettling connections between the visible and the invisible are established. She accurately describes objects, places, situations and actions in solid phrases, but this does necessarily not make them easily recognizable. They are interwoven with associations, flashes of reminiscence, citations, meditations and dream images. Metaphors and similes make transparent the conjured reality and show every experience to be stratified. Poschmann grew up in the Ruhr district and presently lives in Berlin. She studied German literature and linguistics, Slavic studies and philosophy, and writes prose as well as poetry. She has published three collections of poetry, three novels and a novella, for which she has been awarded a variety of international prizes.

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