The Selkie Don't Let Me Be Lonely

The Selkie Don't Let Me Be LonelyMorgan V Morgan V's fascinating and highly original debut, The Selkie, is organized into three linked sections: animated by jokes, confusion, existential horror and banality, often revealing the gaps in understanding that tangle this string of vignettes. In an outdoor market, we meet an unlikely hero in The Monger, buying and selling fish from his stall while the poems around him touch on topics of racial capitalism, cultural ties to animals and food,

'Olivia Elias

Is het schrijven in het zand poëzie

then drawing up new plans

Flarden van liedjes

Van 2016 tot 2018 was hij stadsdichter van Amsterdam

Selected from many hundreds in the original Dutch

roses in bloom

inherited from his adoptive parents

nature writing and 20th Century literary figures with agility

and skilled vs

" proving that history doesn't merely repeat itself

including Elvio Fachinelli's On Freud (2022)