A new reality TV show, dating frustrations, and a runaway wheelchair user in Euro Disney. But also the timelessness of the sea and the immutability of death.
Pussies Need Air Too screams and is silent, celebrates the body, questions the norm, and mourns what wasn't given a place. In this collection, poems rage and surge about sex, grief, desire, loss, anger, and gentleness.
Not poetry that can be framed, but poems that breathe like life itself: uneven, unpredictable, at times tender, at times unbridled. For those who dare to feel and aren't afraid of the woman who takes up space.
“There's something utterly grotesque about it, which also makes it funny.
That double meaning, that's truly clever!”
-Splinter Chabot-
The poet holds up a mirror to us. A rhythmic enumeration in long, poignant lines that sometimes have a witty effect through their contradictions.
A powerful and original reflection of the times.
-Jury report Plantage Poetry Prize 2022-
Maaike van Steenis:
Maaike (born 1978) is a Rotterdam-based poet and performer. She has published in Het Liegend Konijn and Meander, among others, and was nominated for the Laaglandse Archeologie Poetry Prize (2022) and the Plantage Poetry Prize (2022).
ProBeeld (Ton de Koning) is responsible for the cover design.
