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Dikterna i "Dagarna är dagsvers" är optimistiska samtidigt som de bär på ett stort allvar. Vi följer ett jag som med viss melankoli minns, längtar och drömmer. Låt dagen vara ett skratt, ett ogräs som sprider sig i dina drömmars trädgård. Melankolin lugnar och en får lust att läsa om. Att få vara lite själv, ledig från allt det där ute som pockar på ens uppmärksamhet.

Rim kan vara roliga. I bästa fall livar de upp tillvaron i en tid då utspel och beteenden ofta känns helt orimliga. Extra lyckade blir verserna om rytmen riktigt stämmer – även om det inte garanterar att innehållet är alldeles taktfullt. Om rimmen alltid rymmer reson kan nog diskuteras, men resonemang behövs definitivt i vår nutid. Den här samlingen har en stomme av årliga dagar och datum.

Ingen kommer undan. Finansmogulerna, myndighetscheferna, politikerna, journalisterna, aktivisterna, de skamlösa, de gränslösa, de laglösa – alla får sin beskärda del av spott och spe. Att med elegans gissla makten är en konst som versmakaren Rasmus Dahlstedt behärskar till fullo. Narrens röst skär genom samtidens larm. Illustratören Magnus Möllerstedt har en underbar visuell humor och en känsla för såväl proportioner som för karikatyr. Upphovsmännen roar, provocerar och väcker begrundan. Mötet mellan vers och teckning skapar synergieffekter och uppenbarar associationsrikedomar. ”Vers med tanke på refrängen” förenar satirisk skärpa, språklig finess och bildmässig bravur.

August Strindberg (1849-1912) skrev omkring sextio dramer, tio romaner, tio novellsamlingar och åtminstone åttatusen brev – vilket gör honom till en av Sveriges mest produktiva författare. Strindberg gav under sin livstid ut endast tre diktsamlingar: Dikter på vers och prosa (1883), Sömngångarnätter på vakna dagar (1884) och Ordalek och småkonst (1905). Trots en förhållandevis begränsad lyrisk produktion anses hans insats för den svenska lyriken ha varit betydelsefull, vilket kan exemplifieras med det provokativa, vardagliga språket och den fria versen i debutsamlingen. Diktsamlingen är indelad i olika avdelningar delvis baserade på Strindbergs liv, men placerade i omvänd kronologisk ordning. Den bjuder på, förutom ett antal underhållande satirer – med tydliga personangrepp riktade mot författarens meningsmotståndare – även några ungdomsdikter samt ett antal kärleks- och skärgårdsdikter.

Titled after the poem that burned up on Tumblr and has inspired wedding vows, paintings, songs, YouTube videos, and even tattoos among its fans, Mouthful of Forevers brings the first substantial collection of this gifted young poet’s work to the public.Clementine von Radics writes of love, loss, and the uncertainties and beauties of life with a ravishing poetic voice and piercing bravura that speak directly not only to the sensibility of her generation, but to anyone who has ever been young.* Clementine is a featured author on Tumblr's Poetry Spotlight page, alongside such best-selling heavy hitters as Lang Leav, Tyler Knott, and The Paris Review.* Fans engage very deeply with Clementine's work. Many of her poems have gone viral, with hundreds of thousands of notes on Tumblr, and a myriad of fan-created reiterations across all social media.* Only 22 years old, Clementine von Radics is hugely popular among the young people who are making poetry one of the most popular creative content categories online.* Clementine travels widely in fan-sponsored tours of North America and Europe, and will be very actively promoting Mouthful of Forevers in live readings and events.* Clementine's small, self-published poetry chapbooks, Home and As Often As Miracles, sold over 7,000 copies from her website alone.

The highlands of Chiapas are smoldering with death. In the winter of 1997, paramilitary agents ambushed and killed many Mayan villagers in Acteal, Chiapas. Gifted writer Juan Felipe Herrera has composed a stirring poem sequence--published in a bilingual format--written in response and homage to those who died, as well as to all those who call for peace and justice in the Mexican highlands and throughout the Americas. Thunderweavers is a story of violent displacements in the lives of the most impoverished residents of southern Mexico, the Tzotzil Tzeltal campesinos. It deals with the destruction of a people and all evidence of their lives: Why am I Tzotzil?- Why was I born in this land of so many storms?- I plant corn and yet I reap gunpowder- I plant coffee and yet I reap mad spirits- I plant my house and yet I reap the viscera- of this fallen earth. The sections are written in the voices of four women from a family in Chiapas: Xunka, a lost twelve-year-old girl; Pascuala, the mother; grandmother Maruch; and Makal, an older daughter who is pregnant. Each voice weaves into the others and speaks for still other members of the larger Mayan and Native American family. Herrera, a major Chicano poet known for his expansive, surreal writing, here takes on a spare and lyrical style in the tradition of Rosario Castellanos, recalling as well the canto legacy of Pablo Neruda and the testimonial call of Ernesto Cardenal. Thunderweavers is a poetic account of transcendence and continuity in the midst of chaos, suffering, and war-a Mayan cycle of personal, physical, and spiritual struggles that Indian women have been continuously engaged in for th-a past five hundred years.

Christopher Middleton, long a resident of the USA, is one of Britain's finest poets. He was writing (not for publication) his 'Nocturnal Journal' during the two years prior to his retirement from the University of Texas at Austin, where he had taught German and Comparative Literature since 1966. The journal appears here in conjunction with conversations tape-recorded by Marius Kociejowski in London during October 2002 and June 2003. In both areas Middleton attends eloquently to his concerns as poet, translator, and essayist: values intrinsic and peculiar to poetry, the fundamental human aptitude (and craving) for aesthetic expression, and the reading of sign-systems usually deemed haphazard (e.g., a Turkish sea-mew, a soccer match, the aprons of waiters, rubbish in the Paris Metro, and a fresco in Cappadocia). Also included here, by way of introduction to the volume, is a brief but entertaining reminiscence of his first encounters with Christopher Middleton by Marius Kociejowski.

City State showcases the work of twenty-seven London writers between the ages of 16 and 36. From hyperlinked walks of Battersea bombsites and guerilla gardening projects to jagged urban lyrics and dark hymns to the East End, City State presents a confident, entertaining and truly diverse snapshot of the best new poetry from London.Featuring poems by: Jay Bernard, Caroline Bird, Ben Borek, Siddhartha Bose, Tom Chivers, Swithun Cooper, Alex Davies, Inua Ellams, Laura Forman, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Christopher Horton, Kirsten Irving, Annie Katchinska, Amy Key, Chris McCabe, Marianne Munk, Holly Pester, Heather Phillipson, Nick Potamitis, Imogen Robertson, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Ashna Sarkar, Jon Stone, Barnaby Tidman, Ahren Warner, James Wilkes, Steve Willey"We are offered London as a test case for a new diversity of means and manner, from sassy performance scripts to the solid blocks of densely disjunctive language characterised as innovative or avant-garde. [City State proposes] a central space that is also the meeting place of many edges."Philip Gross, Poetry London"City State is [a] journey across the metropolis in rush hour: a journey that by turns bewilders, delights and throws up unpalatable truths. The anthology showcases a real range of styles, from Jacob Sam-La Rose's heartfelt verse, to Chris McCabe's complex, darkly witty observations. Though diverse, the poets featured here often seem to riff around several themes that are associated with London itself: dislocation, escapism, breathlessness."Helen Mort"Performance poets are wedged side by side with the new crop of post-langpo practitioners and sculptors of sound; formalism and new narrative jostle for position with cut-ups, found poems and the inheritors of a confessional poetics [...] What seems to unit the best of the poets here is a quality of looking outward: they are aware of, and play with, the possibilities of language and form; they draw on a recognisable tradition but refresh it, linguistically and subjectively [...] There is a great deal of vitality and versatility among the younger generation of emerging poets in the country's capital."Simon Turner"Here is a good, deep shaft drilled into the poetry of the capital. [...] What I like about this anthology is its range. There are poets here who, I guess, could fit into the latest Bloodaxe catalogue with relative ease. There are others, like Nick Potamitis or Steve Wiley and Alex Davies, who are much more experimental and are carrying on the work of poets such as Allen Fisher and Iain Sinclair. And there are poets coming out of a more performance-oriented stream such as Jacob Sam-La Rose, whose wonderfully ironic 'How to be Black' is one of the many highlights of this collection.[...] A true anthology of what's going on in poetry now."Steven WalingTom Chivers (editor) was born in 1983 in South London. A writer, editor and promoter of poetry, his publications include The Terrors (Nine Arches Press, 2009) and How To Build A City (Salt Publishing, 2009). A winner of the inaugural Crashaw Prize, he is Associate Editor of Tears in the Fence, was Poet in Residence at The Bishopsgate Institute, London, and has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Tom is Director of Penned in the Margins and Co-Director of London Word Festival.

The Terrors is a sequence of imagined emails; poetic missives from the start of the 21st century to inmates at London''s notorious Newgate Prison. Mimicking the tone of its primary source, The Newgate Calendar, The Terrors tacks from horror to humour, from moral disgust to the casual chitchat of the digital generation, all the time delineating London''s violent urban undercurrent in bold, energetic and sometimes shocking language.