this porous fabric

Ulrike Draesner is recognised as one of Germany's most important living poets, as well as being an original and daring writer of fiction.

Her poetic language, recorded where breath and script meet, can unsettle conventional reading modalities: its orthography refuses to capitalize; its punctuation - if the stops and starts may be called that - is rarely executed by comma or period; its sequentialities, shunning the comfort of bespoke narrative, undermining the reliability of marching lines ...