This poetry parades like the chameleon in various appearances…in streaming language and unlikely, striking images.
Humo, on Chameleon
This is carefully accurate poetry, eloquent and adventurous, and truly authentic. That someone’s second book can be so audacious and dauntless is remarkable.
- VSB poëzieprijs 2018 jury, on Nachtroer,
After first making her mark as a compelling performer, Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck was acclaimed as one of Europe’s most innovative and original new voices in poetry following the publication of her first collection Chameleon in 2015. Her first English translation combines her debut volume with her second book Nachtroer (2017), its untranslatable title the name of all-night shop in Antwerp where she lives. Chameleon is a set of apparently naïve but knowingly ironic, playful and subversive poems which trace a girl’s search for a woman’s identity, a coming-of-age exploration of body and language drawing on memories, shapes and landscapes. In Nachtroer her poems take a nighttime journey through heartbreak, insomnia and the hectic flow of daily life, driven by a desire for disappearance, displacement and dissolution. Chameleon ends with taking to the ocean. Nachtroer’s last poem is about building a boat for such a voyage. Chameleon | Nachtroer sets the two books afloat in English.
Les mer
After first making her mark as a compelling performer, Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck was acclaimed as one of Europe’s most innovative and original new voices in poetry. Her first English translation combines her debut volume Chameleon (2015) with its sequel Nachtroer (2017), its title the name of all-night shop in Antwerp where she lives.
Les mer
CHAMELEON
I The Red Cross on the Treasure Map
13 Bucharest
14 Sisjön
15 Örebro
16 Växjö
17 Japanese Pond
18 Hvannadalshnúkur
19 August
21 Sampling
22 Diagnosis
23 Fish Bowl
24 Gilles
25 Flamingo
26 The North Sea
27 Charlotte Cake
II Discovery Channel
31 People Who Watch Wildlife Films to Better Understand Themselves
32 Grand Jeté
33 Whalespotting
34 Satellite Photo
35 Small Volcano
36 Seraphic Light
38 Tyrant
39 Chameleon [I]
40 Chameleon [II]
41 Felidae [I]
42 Felidae [II]
43 Rorschach
44 Astrology for Beginners
45 Space Peel
46 Instructions
47 Lampyridae
48 Expedition
49 Archaeological Site
50 Hunter/Gatherer
52 Triceratops
III Origin
55 Specialist Poulterer
56 Bull’s Head
58 Netezon Laundrette
59 Ausflug/Auszug
60 Winter Veg
61 Council Flat
62 Turtle Reflex
63 Genealogy
64 Fernweh
NACHTROER
Eight, ∞
71 [VIII–I]
Nachtroer
81 Nachtroer
83 Haematoma
84 Drift
86 Aquarium
87 Blue
90 Lethe
91 Groceries Soft Drinks Spirits & Tobacco
94 The Age of Aquarius
98 ——
99 Thirst
103 Section
109 Fricative
110 Hypostasis
111 Slash and Burn
116 White
119 Topos
120 There
126 You’d Like to Build a Boat
Les mer
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781780374475
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
128
Orginaltittel
Kameleon | Nachtroer
Forfatter
Oversetter