Species

<p>In <em>Species</em> Anja Konig examines the absurdity and connectivity of being with candour empathy and irresistible black humour. Each poem in <em>Species</em> creates an aperture a flash of surprise delight or grief: at the precipice of nature the human animal's place within it the catch-22 of belonging all at once to a body the Earth and each other. </p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>I long for a deeper leaving. I want to be a mushroom throwing its net into the dark soil. </em></strong></p>