Ek't Act études drawing characters such as Gertrude

drawing characters such as Gertrude Stein

bringing the fin-de-siècle world of Paris's belle époque into conversation with today

Guillaume Apollinaire (vertaling Kiki Coumans)

Pictorial title page

that poets will sing of the dark times

Ek't Act études drawing characters such as GertrudeKlara du Plessis Acclaimed South African Canadian poet, Klara du Plessis, launches her new poetry collection, Ekt Act (Karavan Press, 2025). The title slippage between agency and being, on the one hand, and performance, on the other, is amplified in Ekt Acts homophonic play across languages. Expanding on Du Plessis earlier translingual poetry, this collection flows seamlessly between English and Afrikaans. The collection features a lyrical speaker and