For Anvil and Rose 12, Inspector Watt returns with reviews of books from Paul Celan (tr. Pierre Joris), Jean Daive (on Celan), Alen Hamza, Lara Mimosa Montes, and a COVID anthology edited by Alice Quinn.

… the most important episode in the history of Nicaraguan poetry was the formation of the Vanguardia group, one of the last of the interwar avant-gardes and the only one to emerge in Central America.

Jack’s poetry asks you, the reader, to abandon yourself, to engage with what you don’t know, and can’t understand, and enter a path of transformative gnosis.

The jungle is the home to beautiful flowers and wild beasts alike…but nothing as wild as Octave!

As Casper continues to deal with obstacles in his path, more and more keep appearing. Mechanical problems are one thing, but hecklers? They’re the last thing he needs!

Who doesn’t love the pretty song tweeted out by birds? Their renters, that’s who!

Every time a new technology is invented our first thought is, how can I use this to get off? Our second: how can we use this to talk to the dead?

In this latest Anvil and Rose, Herman Van den Reeck reviews books from Rosebud Ben-Oni, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, Andres Cerpa, Andrew Levy, and Jackie Wang.

Caesura presenta los siguientes extractos como anticipo del dossier Sien en Trilce, en memoria de los 100 años del poemario Trilce (1922) de César Vallejo, de pronta aparición en la edición nº 22 de la revista Mar con soroche

Octave has finally arrived on the island of Debonairia, but he’s not out of the woods yet. In fact, he’s barely entered them!

The path that adventurer’s take is full of twists, turns, and (as Casper learns this week) rocks!

The stories we tell each other make up the foundation of who we are. Whether those stories are true or not might matter less than we think!

The experience is absolute; a demonstration is made of the presence of an incomplete reality to which its image is opposed by the intervention of a motor element condensing the real and the virtual into a superior unity.

Every year in April I am reminded of two monumental poetic works which begin with the Earth’s springtime renewal: The Canterbury Tales from 1400 and The Waste Land from 1922. 

Art, that great teacher, says to us, like Robert Frost’s most famous lines, “Here are your waters and your watering place. / Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.”

What does Maurice think of America’s most esteemed collection of fine art? The world may never know!

Casper’s quest has brought him into contact with many strange characters, but this might be the strangest of them all!

A dog, a car, and a surveillance camera: what could go wrong?

For Octave, escaping from the clutches of kidnapping pirates is an easy feat. Determining what matters to him on a philosophical level? That’s a different story!

Welcome to Ruby’s world, where dreams come true…for better or for worse!