OSSIA Don Mee Choi

OSSIA Don Mee ChoiJimin Seo The dead draw the living toward new language in Jimin Seos extraordinary debut poetry collection, OSSIA. Writing across Korean and English in poems that span a breadth of forms, Seo renders an entirely original map of the voice in its shifting address to a range of ghostly figures: his mother; old lovers; his late friend and mentor, the legendary poet translator Richard Howard. Taking the cleaving mechanism of translation as a point of

sprak tot je zoals nu en zei –

Largely composed in various Japanese syllabic forms called “wakas

” and a zoo-breaking gorilla named Bokito

'die nooduitgang

Het hoogtepunt in haar oeuvre vormen de Honingprotocollen (2012)

The shepherds are prescribed Ritalin

The poems of Mikael Johani’s second collection Mongrel Kampung are mixed

In Bewogen selfies onderzoekt Obe Alkema de verhouding tussen landschap en herinnering

and then as a young father

Kader Abdolah

plus an illustration in full colour

amassing between them eleven epigraphs (from Samuel Beckett