VirgulaIn Virgula, Sasja Janssens award winning collection, the comma becomes much more than a punctuation mark; it stops the stillness and allows thoughts and language to move forward. Virgula is invoked as a muse and a companion; she is called on in every poem, as if she were a goddess, friend or lover, someone who offers space when the emptiness becomes too heavy. Virgula received the Awater Poetry Prize and was nominated for the Ida Gerhardt Poetry Prize

translated by Elzbieta Wjcik-Leese

As the snow begins to fall the two women become entangled in a claustrophobic relationship

Joyicity by the New York Times as "supreme"

scant noons and jive cadets

Thompson has a refreshing

where its boundaries lie

A long-awaited re-issue

humour and spiky syntax

a short story translated by the author

whilst your work emails pile up without ever being read

who died in June 2008

and life-changing circumstances for very many people