Plainspeak Ibn Arabi Ultramarine distills four years of

Ultramarine distills four years of Koestenbaum’s trance notebooks (2015–2019) into a series of tightly-sewn collage-poems

Hoe weet je dat een gedicht af is

virtuosically deployed

de effecten ervan en de condities ervoor vertolken

France and the United States

Plainspeak Ibn Arabi Ultramarine distills four years ofAstrid Alben Plainspeak is the highly anticipated second collection by Astrid Alben. In these startling poems, readers will experience Albens unorthodox alter ego thinking out louder approach with the same exhilaration as they might engage with art or jazz. Plainspeak reinvents play and logic, is poignant, humorous, absurd and anguished: a book for and of the times we live in.