Kissing Other People or the House of Fame Works & Days and only time – embodied

and only time – embodied here in Lisa Robertson’s forceful cadences – can tell

including Anna Mendelssohn

Zelfbeklag komt in het verhaal niet voor

De wereld en het mensdom bespiegelend

surrealism and blunt materiality

Kissing Other People or the House of Fame Works & Days and only time – embodiedKay 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,