Lieke Marsman's work delves into the complexities of engagement and our response to environmental crises. Her writings fluidly bridge genre boundaries, seamlessly integrating prose, essayistic insights, and poetry to create a unique and compelling reading experience. Marsman probes our capacity for empathy with the world around us, prompting reflection on our inaction in the face of global challenges. Her distinctive style is characterized by its dynamic energy and her adeptness at subverting conventional literary forms.
Frank, conversational and suffused with a dry humour, this book is a record of poet and novelist Lieke Marsman's diagnosis, events and thoughts of having bone cancer. An energising mix of prose and lyric, the poems offer readings of both the writer and her environment. Translated by poet Sophie Collins.
If people were evil, and I wished to be good, then I had to�make sure that I was the opposite of a person.