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Excavation – 100 Poems – Markus Kirchhofer consistently follows his writing path: After ten picture stories and comics, he published his first solo publication, the poetry collection "ice fishing," in 2014. The years of intensive collaboration with illustrators are evident in Kirchhofer's poetry: it is visually powerful and precise, playful and poetic, profound and humorous. Three years ago, Markus Kirchhofer traveled to China, where nearly half of the 100 poems were created. In "excavation," they are juxtaposed on double pages with poems that originated in the West. Between the pages, between East and West, new and astonishing associative spaces open up. Reto Gloor designed the cover and illustrations for "excavation." Together with Markus Kirchhofer, he published the picture story and comic "meyer & meyer" in 2015.