Hannes Wesendonk's poems reveal a recurring interplay between banality, seriousness and nonsense

Luna Sicat Cleto's poems are the first works of Filipino literature to be translated directly from Tagalog into German - a pioneering cultural achievement by Swiss writer and translator Annette Hug

Jhak Valcourt's collection of poems "Cuando callan los ríos" (When the rivers fall silent) not only highlights the identity crisis of the lyric self, but is an important contribution to the genre of new social poetry

Colm Tóibín's poetry collection "Vinegar Hill" serves well the reader with a passion for poetry, and reflects man in all his complexity

Explosion of a cry too long stifled - A deep reading of Ronny Ramírez's early poems and the search for the poetic self

"Dusk" brings together fragmented poetic worlds and gives them voice in three languages

Jörg Schieke's poems in "Silverman schickt mich" (Silverman sends me) captivate with their irresolvable character, but are also a systematic poetic exploration of the legacies of the GDR

With his three cycles in "Die Erde hebt uns auf" (The earth lifts us up), Tom Schulz has produced an outstanding volume of poetry that is as beautifully sad as it is formally rigorous, political in identity and combative