Kissing Other People or the House of Fame Merel van Slobbe Sometimes wry

Sometimes wry

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

maar blijven bijeen als de raten waarin honing wordt verzameld

het feminiene en het hedendaagse

Kissing Other People or the House of Fame Merel van Slobbe Sometimes wryKay 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,