Tom Schulz, born 1970 in Oberlausitz, lives as a freelance author, editor and lecturer in creative writing in Berlin. In 2015, his poetry collection A Change in the Light was published by Hanser Berlin. He has received numerous awards and scholarships for his poetry including the Kunstpreis Literatur of the Lotto Foundation Brandenburg in 2013, the Alfred Gruber Prize in 2014 and, most recently, the Liechtenstein Prize for Poetry in 2016.
Alert, present and with a keen poetic style, Tom Schulz’s new poems present him as a committed poet who cannot avert his gaze, or turn away from the world’s fractures and ruptures.
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We have to produce light, oxygen.
Exchange breath. Give stones water.
In his new poems, Tom Schulz engages in poetic memory-building. Visually powerful and unpredictable, they are ...
»Once I was a cuckoo fired from a clock/and all the time in the world was mine.« Tom Schulz’s poems gate-crash the everyday world with overtures of self-possession that will change the ...
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