Snagged on red threadJazmine Linklater Snagged on red thread is a long poem of protest, power and complicity. Jazmine Linklater articulates how the apparatus of Empire is encoded in the structures we live in: militarised sights set on schoolyards, bargaining arms deals with teenagers, surveilling civic squares, co opting institutions. And yet Snagged on red thread is compelled to march, to embroider, to bear witness. What is it to only know the word sweetheart in the

illiterate into adulthood: it’s tempting to read Hyatt according to the familiar script of the doomed poet

as well as the pleasures of description

de Oostzee en Ierland weer naar Griekenland brengt

with a relevance rendered immediate through Syersak’s skillful translation

he makes palpable the idea that radically new structures

In poems that are affectionate

exchanging them

observing the detritus of his home city

" – Erín Moure

Zo kan het gebeuren dat het de lezer niet meteen opvalt hoeveel Van Strijtem te zeggen heeft

cloud-like

Nathalie Quintane