Translated from Dutch by Donald Gardner. Published with the support of the Dutch Foundation for Literature.
Published 2025. Paperback, 108pp, 9 x 6ins, £12.95 / US$20.
ISBN 9781848619319 [Download a PDF of the introduction to this book here.]
Maria Barnas’ witty and subversive poetry can be seen as a quest for an identity that always just eludes her: ‘The floors / are buckling and the windows and doors / show cracks. These are the hinges / of an existence I call my own.’ Nothing is what it seems for her and appearances are indeed just that — appearances. In another poem, she points out that, ‘The corner of an eye can contain many things’, and this could almost be taken as a mission statement.
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