The Goldfish by Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Kim Moore These seven instructive years highlight

These seven instructive years highlight the making of a poet who has now subsequently achieved international acclaim as a thinker

is language “as slippery as any other kind of wealth”

remote and for so long an outcast in Europe

A major literary figure in the former Yugoslavia

The Goldfish by Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Kim Moore These seven instructive years highlightThe Goldfish is a sumptuous, surreal exploration of femininity. The poet inhabits the voice of a goldfish through a series of linguistically experimental poems which plunge us into the glass bowl and invite us to gaze out. The poems are in turn sensual, spiky, and queasy, as the poet satirizes the patriarchy and issues a rallying cry for women broken down by society. Halfway through the book, the scope opens out to the world beyond the goldfish bowl,