Bored Wolves

“Inside the apartment, shrouded by net curtains, the kitchen is close to bare—but, importantly, not so…”

Alex Rossiter, in Notes from a Polish Allotment, his forthcoming haibun collection of prose, haiku, and pencil drawings (Bored Wolves, June)

Tworzenie ogrodu permakulturowego polega na nieustannym uczeniu się od natury. Co to oznacza w praktyce?

“I left Istanbul after graduating from high school, in 2006. It was only in July 2015, less than a year after Erdoğan assumed the presidency, that I found myself living in the city again full-time, to conduct manuscript research and improve my Classical Arabic reading skills. My parents’ railroad apartment was a location where I lacked the liberty to edit my poems in peace and to cultivate the sense of ‘poetic bewilderment’ so beneficial to my practice. I therefore had to put on my shoes and abandon it.”

Sometimes a thought, or a whisper, or a dispatch, "Tell the Turning" unfolds as lyrical journal, hymnal, and almanac all rolled into one volume, with its three poem cycles interweaving thematic rhythms and threads.

In "My Life in Curves Recently", poet-artist Sevinç Çalhanoğlu plots her daily rhythms and habits during coronavirus lockdown, in the spring of 2020, when she was largely confined to her apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

"Remmus" is a graft of Podlasie earth-water-sky and Mikołaj’s pigments, heart, and intuition. Designed in close collaboration with graphic artist and designer Kaja Gliwa.

"She Threw the Rope & Pulled the Lake" is what happens when an adult listens to a child closely and takes her musings, observations, and inquiries seriously.

Nutshell poems chronicling the exploits of backwoods gamine Tomboy. Each poem is a description of a diorama through which Tomboy passes over the course of a witching hour. 

"Kitchen" includes a painting by Maria Pomiansky of the slippered, tousled artist at work drawing a red cabbage; and a poem by Stefan Lorenzutti about his fateful decision to open a bottle of wine with a woodworking tool.

Poems about being halfway between here and there, on highways and hiking trails; about the balm of blank billboards and overcast skies when your eyes are sore; about questing for comfort zones.

"A Promenade at Home" is a meticulous cataloging of possession in all its forms. Revisiting her childhood home in Istanbul in spirit, poet Sevinç Çalhanoğlu overhears a conversation between her mother and the sentient house, their dialogue a cantillated litany of decorations past and present.

A winner of the 2021 VOLUMES (Zurich) Book Award

In "Sweaty Leaves", Petter Dahlström Persson’s poems alternate between mellow in-between moments with mint-colored eggs in your palm and the guttural viciousness of gulls.

Poems about quests. Quiet quests. 

Poems by Stefan Lorenzutti

Poems and prose dispatches from the Beskid Wyspowy range of southern Poland are woven into an ambulatory scrapbook with an emphasis on weather and wandering.