Cocoa and Nothing Aimé Césaire Fanailova has the candor and

Fanailova has the candor and compassion of Akhmatova and a gift for striking metaphor that might bring Mandelstam to mind

and Rodrigo Toscano

A refraction of Inger Christensen’s seminal Alphabet

Nisrine Mbarki

Can violence be redeemed through esthetic metamorphosis

Cocoa and Nothing Aimé Césaire Fanailova has the candor andColin Herd and Maria Sledmere I know sex is good but have you ever tried combining poetry and chocolate? Even better, make it squared! Cocoa and Nothing is the culmination of a season of relay between what Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities called the chocolate sprites, inhabited here by Colin Herd and Maria Sledmere, fuelled by toothache, training and their favourite brand of iconic confectionary. Each poem is named after a variety of Ritter