In autumn 2022, there will be 8 poetry titles in my publishing programme—a decision that was due to the cooperation with the great poets in my programme, as they approached me with new volumes; but also a decision for completely new cooperations, such as those with Ralf-Rainer Rygulla and Marco Sagurna as well as with a whole series of fellow publishers across Europe and within the framework of my project »European Book Projects« (more on this soon).

And in general, the decision to launch a poetry programme—which is not an easy one from a commercial point of view—is also based on the mature conviction that poetry has been one of the most exciting language movements in recent years, that the radical social, intellectual and political changes of these years have been taken up and dealt with in poetry in the most agile way, that new language is emerging ...

There is much to be said about this. This will happen at meetings with the poets, for example on 9 July at the publishing house. And above all, it will happen in the poems and volumes of the authors themselves. Here are these 8 titles of Autumn 2022: