Fetal PositionHolly Melgard Fetal Position is a poetic study of different forms of labor in scenes of their emergence such as the noise of being born and transmissions of inter generational violence. Here, voices speak who Melgard herself is not or not yet but who the poet operates in relation to becoming (potential parent, aspiring full time employee, deranged cat lady, a hurt person automated to reproduce harm), all of whom work to navigate futures in foreclosure.

At 2 am on Friday

the poems hold an innate quantum curiosity about the infinitude of the present and the ways in which one could observe the history of the future

I would suggest

Ik zeg niet dat ik Engels ben

Te jong voor verantwoordelijkheden

buiten kastelen buiten abdijen niks geen veiligheid

Both desperately philosophical and tenderly present

These poems shunt a reader between the political and personal via unique

sometimes anguished

' Evans declares

In Balts verbindt Luuk Gruwez de beslissende momenten die geboorte en dood markeren – zij het niet noodzakelijk op een deprimerende manier

Het Land van Kokanje