Little Estuaries - Softcover

Daniel Kramb

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9083312615 ISBN 13: 9789083312613

Publisher: HetMoet-Menard Press, 2023

Synopsis

“Gorgeous—I’ve been sipping it in small sittings like a very fine wine.” Max Porter

“Gloriously spare and strange and compendious and tender, like a hymn.” Sara Baume

In LittleEstuaries, Daniel Kramb goes in search for what’s fleeting between theshores.

Amid a constantly shifting sense of what can be seen, sensed,experienced, the poet probes the estuary as sphere: an opening up, apossibility.

Whittled down,like sea to stream, his poems emerge, in their own distinct form,estuary-shaped on the page. 

Intricate, at timesplayful, always open, these unassuming, small pieces reach beyond the confines,always returning to what’s undeniable, as body.

Silt-smeared and salty, this is poetry not onlandscape, but through it: formed not by what exists, but from what’s washed upwithin. 

About this title

About the Author

Daniel Kramb is a writer and poet. He is a member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen and his prose history of the collective is out in Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different (2021). Other work has appeared in The London Magazine, Prototype, Popshot and elsewhere. His fiction includes Central (2015) and From Here (2012). Several Little Estuaries make up a poetry intervention, commissioned by Metal Southend, overlooking the Thames estuary at (SEE) Park, near Stanford-le-Hope.

From the Back Cover

In Little Estuaries onderzoekt Daniel Kramb het vluchtige karakter van het gebied tussen de oevers. Hij benadert het estuarium als ruimte: een opening, een mogelijkheid. De taal wordt teruggebracht tot haar kern, ze loopt over de pagina als de zee die is teruggebracht tot individuele riviertjes. Maar net als rivieren keren deze speelse, bescheiden en complexe fragmenten altijd terug naar het onmiskenbare, het geheel. Dit is geen poëzie óver een landschap, maar wordt gevormd door wat er in dat landschap aanspoelt, terugkeert en wegstroomt, over de grenzen van de pagina.

Edition details

• Publisher: HetMoet-Menard Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9083312615
• ISBN 13: 9789083312613
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 65