further lines of communication. Derek Walcott Crossing – translated by award-winning

Crossing – translated by award-winning translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid – is a powerful chronicle of uprootedness

a complex act of exultant feminine chaos

daalt hij af in het diepst van de Hel om daarna de Louteringsberg te bestijgen: daar wacht een gesublimeerde vrouw als Beatrice op hem

deciphering what you can and being jolted by the static of what recedes from you

Poetry as both a form and genre has many possibilities to exist within

further lines of communication. Derek Walcott Crossing – translated by award-winningAnna Mendelssohn An avant garde author, artist, and activist, Anna Mendelssohn was born in Stockport in Northern England in 1948. From the 1980s she studied and resided in Cambridge, publishing 15 poetry collections and contributing to landmark contemporary anthologies, among them, Denise Rileys Poets on Writing (1992) and Iain Sinclairs Conductors of Chaos (1996). In 1972, Mendelssohn was a defendant at the Stoke Newington Eight criminal trial of