MA poetry English These poems bear the record

These poems bear the record of a state of heightened perception

has sunk her thoughts in her everyday perceptions to capture the continuity of a reality that

then writing new poems in response to what they receive

"The loss of a mother must be something very strange"

heeft altijd tot de verbeelding gesproken

MA poetry English These poems bear the recordIda Brjel MA, Ida Brjels award winning abecedarian, is a maelstrom of voices cast in the underwater shadows and nuclear light of the Anthropocene. A refraction of Inger Christensens seminal Alphabet, published in 1981, MA speaks a furious incantation in the past tense, a grammar of loss, from the vantage point of a disintegrating here and now. Appearing for the first time in English in Jennifer Hayashidas luminous translation, MA is less a curative