The English Poems of an Unknown German Poet

Is it possible to write poetry in a language other than one's mother tongue? The English poems of an unknown German poet are the attempt. Written in the years 2015 to 2022, after phases of intensive reading and working with English texts, they lie in the tension between the foreign and the familiar, with one's own world entering a foreign one and a foreign world touching familiar spheres. There is a mutual interaction between understanding and incomprehension, serving as an exercise to focus on real truthfulness. And of course, in these poems, there is always a companion: a smile. Present in its whole range, from a soft warm smile that is only a guess on one's lips to a sometimes even bitterly sarcastic ironic grin, it may be the only answer in a confusingly unusual time.