Virgula by Sasja Janssen, translated by Michele Hutchison Kae Tempest and making life from the

and making life from the very things that threaten it

Hymas creates a poetic space of ocean as an assemblage of animal

Each poem in the sequence offers a snapshot of one year

Chris McCully reads Beowulf as an epic written in English using all the complex metrical conventions of its time

chaotic and unpredictable lives we lead in a post-industrial culture

Virgula by Sasja Janssen, translated by Michele Hutchison Kae Tempest and making life from theVirgula, the Latin word for a comma, is what moves thoughts and languages forward and what stops the stillness. I long for a full stop, but my Virgulas are wary of employing them, I press them close as though death were breathing down my neck In Virgula, Sasja Janssens award winning collection, the comma becomes much more than a punctuation mark; it stops the stillness and allows thoughts and language to move forward. Virgula is invoked as a muse and