Digte

A book-length, syntactically surprising poem divided into many sections.

Aloysius Bertrand (1807-1841) står med sit korte levned indskrevet i litteraturens annaler som den romantiske digters arketype: monomani, armod, tuberkulose, tidlig død; en sværmerisk poète maudit, som gik til grunde for ét ophøjet værk. Værket er i hans tilfælde den franske klassiker Gaspard de la nuit, som nu foreligger i sin første komplette danske oversættelse. Siden sin oprindelige udgivelse (posthumt i 1842) har dette hybridværk af billedkunst og poetiske tableauer verseret i diverse varianter, som her endelig samles og udredes for danske læsere.Nattens Gaspard består af prosadigte i seks dele, der ledsages af oversætterens efterskrift, kommentarer og fantastiske illustrationer, som binder værket smukt sammen. Stykkerne er stramt komponerede og veksler mellem gotiske, komiske, groteske og satiriske motiver. Surrealisterne døbte Bertrand ’en fortidens surrealist’, og han betragtes som prosadigtets fader – imiteret af Baudelaire i Le Spleen de Paris, besunget af Mallarmé, forlæg for H.C. Andersens Billedbog uden Billeder og fejret af Georg Brandes, der beskrev hans stil som ”en Billedskærers og Guldsmeds Kunst i Sprogets Behandling.”

"Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens considers the way that the absence of touch-in acts of war via the drone, in acts of love via the sext, in aesthetics itself-abstracts the human body, transforming it into a proxy for the real. "What love poem / could be written when men can no longer / look up?" this book asks, always in a state of flux between doubt and belief-in wars, in gods, in fathers, in love. Through epistolary addresses to these figures of power and others, these poems attempt to make bodies concrete and dangerous, immediate and addressable, once again"--

A Lick and a Promise is the debut poetry collection of one of Irelands most famed female musicians, Imelda May. Following the release of her first poetry EP Slip Of The Tongue in 2020, this collection contains 100 poems, including two each from both her father and young daughter. Using the themes of Breast, Below, Blood, Eyes, Tongue and Temple, the poems are written in Mays absorbing, visceral style and encapsulate heartbreak, sex, nature and womanhood. Included in the collection is You Dont Get to be Racist and Irish, the powerful poem which was written in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and was recently used by Rethink Ireland

When a dark storm settled upon the earth, you lost many things-your hope, your strength, yourself. One day, in the middle of the darkness, you meet a spirit, washed from the ocean onto the shore. The spirit hands you a key. It is time to find the way back home.

"Noget er ved at forandre sig i vores samfund og vores verden. Det er det, Naiha Khiljees digte viser os." Sådan skrev en anmelder om debuten, Kære søster.Læg en besked er en samling spoken word-inspirerede digte, der lægger op til en ny form for åndelig aktivisme med budskabet om at gøre plads til ro, inderlighed og nærhed.Hvordan taler vi egentlig med hinanden i de sociale mediers æra? Hvordan påvirker det os altid at se os selv udefra, altid at have et åbent kommentarfelt, mails alle døgnets timer? Det er de spørgsmål, Naiha Khiljee tager afsæt i, når hun med en smittende humor og en brændende indignation skriver om mentalt helbred, online-kultur og ulighed. Glimtvis trækker hun på egne erfaringer fra blandt andet den danske medieverden og fra sit arbejde som psykolog.Som modvægt til skærmens altopslugende kraft reflekterer Naiha Khiljee over åndelighed, natur og de dyder, hun blev præsenteret for som barn, og som ikke altid harmonerer med den måde vi omgås hinanden, for eksempel gæstfrihed..

We live in the age of the internet, where we spend most of our time socialising and connecting with people via social media rather than in person. Today we are so connected yet so lonely. We need instant gratification. We need instant results, and if something doesn't work, we just replace it, be it people or things. This has left so many people broken, with no real person to talk to face to face, which is what we need when we are down. I've compiled a collection of thoughts/poems/notes, I don't even know what to call them, but just to make it easier, I'll call them thoughts. I've tried to observe and listen to people over the short time I've been on this planet. I've tried to understand, not judge when listening and observing.

* Finalist for the Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew Prize Renée Vivien (née Pauline Mary Tarn, 1877-1909) was an English expatriate who made her home in Paris during the Belle Époque. In 1903, Vivien's collection of translations and adaptations from the Ancient Greek poetry of Sappho became one of the first works of modern European lesbian literature to be published by a lesbian writer under her real name. This courageous act was the death-sentence of her literary career. Parisian critics who had praised the mysterious "R. Vivien" as a young man of poetic genius began to snub at first and then simply ignore the newly un-closeted woman poet. Even in the face of ridicule and disrespect, Vivien continued to write and publish poetry, short stories, translations, plays, epigrams, and a novel based on her real-life romances with Natalie Clifford Barney and the Baroness Hélène van Zuylen van Nyevelt van Haar (née Rothschild). Vivien's poetry is now available in English translation by Samantha Pious: A Crown of Violets (Headmistress Press, 2015). I think it's very rare to encounter a new lesbian poet through translation and I am very excited to support this collection in its positive obsession and literary innovation alike. If it is that we are encouraged to each become the lover of Renée Vivien through her work, then this translator has succeeded in making the poet's wishes as transparent as an invitation can be: "The nave has been adorned to welcome you aright."Meg Day, Judge of the Charlotte Mew Prize This is an invaluable collection that brings Renée Vivien to life for English-speaking readers. Émigrée and sexual adventurer, Vivien wrote poetry strewn with broken harps and beautiful corpses. Pious's delicate but fearless translations draw out the bruised passions and troubadour rhythms that make Vivien essential reading for anyone interested in lesbian literature, fin-de-siècle poetics, or the agonies of sensual love.Kate Thomas, author of Postal Pleasures: Sex, Scandal and Victorian Letters

The highly anticipated debut book of poetry from singer, songwriter, artist and poet Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass. 'Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each word to make the perfect poem. They are eclectic and honest and not trying to be anything other than what they are and for that reason I'm proud of them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic,' Lana Del Rey. Lana’s breathtaking first book solidifies her further as 'the essential writer of her times' (The Atlantic). The collection features more than thirty poems, many exclusive to the book: Never to Heaven, The Land of 1,000 Fires, Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving, LA Who Am I to Love You?, Tessa DiPietro, Happy, Paradise Is Very Fragile, Bare Feet on Linoleum and many more. This beautiful hardcover edition showcases Lana’s typewritten manuscript pages alongside her original photography. The result is an extraordinary poetic landscape that reflects the unguarded spirit of its creator.

A selection of Linton Kwesi Johnson's best poems over three decades. Ranging from protests against police brutality to eulogies for departed friends and playful celebrations of urban life, Johnson's use of Jamaican dialect to tackle distinctly British subjects contributed to a revolution in the notion of literary English. This Selected Poems charts the unique literary talent of one of Britain's most influential poets and social critics.

The story of Odysseus, king of Ithaca and his voyage back home following the cessation of the Trojan War.

Embarking on the long road to recovery, Michael was soon ready to start writing about his near-death experience. Combining stunning new prose poems by one of Britain's best loved poets and the moving coronavirus diaries of his nurses, doctors and wife Emma-Louise Williams, this is a beautiful book about love, life and the NHS.

Planet B tager form gennem seks dele – Sammenbrud, Sygdomsbilleder, Skovhugst, Synsbedrag, Skabning og Solopgang. Inspireret af Timothy Mortons 'dark ecology' og dennes opgør med romantikkens natursyn fremskriver Planet B en alternativ naturdigtning. En have af haveaffald, blomsternes løgn, 100 siders blindskrift der beretter om en havudsigt.Torben Munksgaard har udgivet flere romaner og krimier. Dette er hans anden digtsamling.Digt fra bagsiden:Vi skal sørge med sivene / vi er en del af en elv // på første række rækker børnene / fingeren i vejret // intetanende peger de / på gæs

»Moloch« er en bog om fald og forsoning. En fortælling om det, der sker med et menneske, når det, der ikke må ske, sker. Når kærligheden vender vrangen ud, når tillid, håb og tro forliser. Det er en tekst om at miste alt til håbløshed og mistro, jalousi og selvhad. En bog om forelskelse og dyb kærlighed, om længsel og savn, om afmagt og raseri. Et digt om at rejse sig igen. ”Det hænderat jeg skriger af raserialt for ofte hænder detat jeg råber min fortvivlelse ud” Moloch er en ustandselig tekst, et indblik i et intelligent og rastløst sind.Søren R. Fauth er dr.phil., oversætter, digter, litteraturforsker og germanist.

”Den personlige historie kan anklages for at være falsk, den kan brugestil at hævne sig, til at få genoprejsning eller sætte hændelser i nytperspektiv. Jeg er spændt ud mellem et ønske om at være loyal modvirkeligheden, og et ønske om at skabe noget, der er mit, somvirkeligheden ikke har krav på.” Sådan skriver Anne-Louise Bosmans i sin poetik Jeg kan godt genkende mit ansigt, når jeg ser det, men jeg tror ikke på, at det er sådan, jeg ser ud (Antipyrine, 2021). Bosmans nye digtsamling Mens jeg sover, glemmer jeg dig ligger i klar forlængelse af hendes forrige Bruxelles (Antipyrine, 2018). Men hvor Bruxelles var relativ kølig, tilbageholdende og vrængede af at have mangefølelser men ikke vide noget, skrives følelserne og temperamenterne ud i et mere intimt og henvendende rum . Mens jeg sover, glemmer jeg dig handler om forskellige rum, sandhed(er) og temperamenter, om at findesig til rette, om at skrive, få et barn, om at være dansker i Bruxelles, om at være gift med en muslimsk mand, om at være i flere kulturer.

I denne bog viderebearbejder Lars Ole Nielsen i dokumentarisk form livet efter en diagnose som kronisk cancer-patient.Ligesom den første bog fra Lars Ole Nielsen, reflekteres der over det liv som foregår mellem svingdørene på hospitalsgangene, krydret med poetiske stykker som både kan give knuder i maven og sympatiske følelser.Hertil kommer storartede og flotte malerier af Anne Bech, og illustrationer fra Lars Ole Nielsens egen notesbog.Lars Ole Nielsen har tidligere været aktuel med bogen Du Har Tid, ISBN: 9788793920019

Imagine, first, a forest full of snow... This is the story of a unique generation of violins. It begins in the silence of snow-filled forests and brings us to the chatter and traffic of a twenty-first century city.  It is the story of their maker, Antonio Stradivari, the sparkling young prodigy who did his greatest work late in life, lifting music from the silence of all he had lost. It is also the story of all of us. Of the passions that flicker through our lives, and what might unfold if we chase them. It is the story of how our greatest loves will outlive us, if only we will let them go.Intimate and eternal, Songs of Snow and Silence by Jen Emery captures the solitary song of a woodlark, the crackle of a campfire and the echoing laughter around it. This is a voice steeped in ancient wisdom, made fresh by a grit and bright wit. Loreto Ruiz''s exquisite paintings bring alive in colour and movement the music, time, and emotions that shape this work, offering a soaring beauty and empathy that transcends words.Have you lived long enough yet to know what it is to wake, stiff and cold before dawn by a burned down fire?

Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of compassionate and energetic sonnets are 'The Kids', her students, the teenagers she nurtured. But the poems go further, meeting her own child self as she comes of age in 80s and 90s. Winner of the Costa Poetry Award, shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.

Wild is the Heart is a collection of aphorisms, epigrams and poetry inspired by the waves of life, divided into four parts: love, life, lovers, ebb and flow.This is your life: You don't have to take anybody else's life prescription as your path just get out of your own way and trust the compass of your wild heart.

The poems of Nocturnal are constellations to guide those on a journey of healing and self-discovery, no matter how dark the night.