Was It for This B. Zwaal Utterly rejecting the lies and

Utterly rejecting the lies and logic of capitalism

Op droge grond schreef

Zo wordt de groei zichtbaar van een dichter met een directe en persoonlijk geladen expressieve stem tot een intrigerende epische verteller die een eigen wereld creëert

and glinting with stars

fully conscious of reality and its metaphysical limits—“yes / the dark matter / animated by your hand / it’s me

Was It for This B. Zwaal Utterly rejecting the lies andHannah Sullivan Hannah Sullivans first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that books project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map our lives in space and time. But there is also the wider, collective experience to contend with, the upheaval of historic event and present disaster. Tenants, the first poem, is an elegy