Kissing Other People or the House of Fame Merel van Slobbe stemmy things is a vision

stemmy things is a vision unraveling

De dichtregels zelf zijn de bijenzwermen

maar blijven bijeen als de raten waarin honing wordt verzameld

het feminiene en het hedendaagse

Less a sudden lightning-like insight than a protracted seepage that gathers over time into a deluge of language

Kissing Other People or the House of Fame Merel van Slobbe stemmy things is a visionKay Gabriel where when youre back well be having rice and pulses hold in gasses kiss and flip off the one or two remaining pigs A book in two halves, Kissing Other People or the House of Fame opens with a sequence of poems that roam the grotty, sublime streets: patting rats, reading pamphlets, enduring labour, acquiring falafel, waving to friends. Then the book flips on a seam and invokes Chaucer as an unlikely guide through a series of dream blocks,