Killernova Anton de Kom

Killernova Anton de KomOmar Musa The island of Borneo was once the most heavily wooded in the world, and its people have always carved wood beautifully. In Killernova, grappling with his heritage, Omar Musa remixes this ancient art form with fiery poetry forged in the stars. With equal parts swagger, humour and vulnerability, Musa charts a journey through the colonial history of South East Asia, environmental destruction, oceans, bushfires, race in Australia, the isolation

Dionne Brand

die de jongeling niet kan weerstaan

The Book of a Thousand Eyes was begun as an homage to Scheherazade

before disembarking at an abandoned future city

Asha Karami

culminerend in een epiloog van een dichter die

het oord van zijn woord

een drukke baan

this work reclaims the visceral potency of poetry—it is food

the time of nature is inherently political

its sprawling poems build towards an expansive world celebrating fluidity while casting a critical lens on state power

all worth in shared joy only