Cavalcanty Extracting the Stone of Madness

Cavalcanty Extracting the Stone of MadnessPeter Hughes The thirteenth century Tuscan poet Guido Cavalcanti helped to create a new poetry that belonged to the city rather than the court, and through his use of Tuscan vernacular gave an extraordinary intensity and craft to his explorations of the social and psychological dimensions of love. Peter Hughes has taken Cavalcantis groundbreaking poems and used them as springboards for his own creative versions. Following in the footsteps of Dante

water en vuur

At 2 am on Friday

Brossa reinvigorates this language so as to evince an accessible and archly political poetry that demands our critical and creative participation

De onverwachteling komt van ver maar slaagt er toch in om contact te maken met de aarde

Now that his work is increasingly appearing in translation

The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher

Mundane conversations are occasions for rest and contentment

called Hopelessness and published by the 87 Press

It's so beautiful

visually captivating and deceptively intimate

repetitions

An interrogation of the erotic and romantic becomes refracted