Old Business Piet Gerbrandy since so much of what

since so much of what he writes is anchored in recollection…I feel that he resolves this tricky business by examining place as a metaphor for the past

John Berger

Denise Levertov

and tenderness of the human

Rosa’s pleegmoeder

Old Business Piet Gerbrandy since so much of whatRyan Dobran The poetry of Ryan Dobran begins in a congenial, observational mode and crystallizes swiftly into an engrossing lattice of voice and affect, a prismatic language that pivots unassumingly through shades of the quotidian and the disenchanted, the earnest and the circumspect, the ingenuous and the vatic. It is a recognizably contemporary poetry: familiar discourses and lifeworlds made uncanny by an exacting realism, conscientious of the