poetry
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Transition Vamps
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I’m happy to announce that Australian poetry imprint Cordite Books will publish my third full-length collection, Transition Vamps, in 2026. The contents of the book span three decades of transitions in my writing life: from the mid-to-late 2000s in Melbourne, Seoul, Den Haag and Amsterdam, to the 2010s in Karlskrona, Stockholm and Gustavsberg, and the…
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‘May.be’
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In 1889 the Dutch poet Herman Gorter published a 4,381-line poem, entitled ‘Mei’ [May]. You can view a scan of the original on the Internet Archive. ‘Mei’ is considered a canonical work in Dutch literature but also has a reputation as a poem that is ‘known’ more than it is ‘read’. As one of the…