Virgula by Sasja Janssen, translated by Michele Hutchison Kae Tempest Seferis’s never loses touch with

Seferis’s never loses touch with the stones and inscriptions of the past

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

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

and making life from the very things that threaten it

Virgula by Sasja Janssen, translated by Michele Hutchison Kae Tempest Seferis’s never loses touch withVirgula, 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