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Naomi Esther Perquin

In her fifth collection, Ester Naomi Perquin focuses on the truth that hangs over our heads, the images we make of it and the powers to which we have to relate. From the creep in the park to the doctor who brings us bad news, from the people asking for a strong leader, to the poet trying to make sense with a war; Perquin looks for what keeps us in the saddle when both the horse and the staggering seem to fall away from our own responsibility. Clear, humorous and thinking poetry from a poet who looks at the world with equal creative drive and empathy. "The searched word always seems bigger than the word / that you find at last: when it wasn't there, it fit / more and more beautiful silence."