Is it possible to write poetry in a language other than one's mother tongue? The English Poems of an Unknown German Poet are the attempt. Written in the years 2015 to 2022, after phases of intensive reading and working with English texts, they lie in the tension between the foreign and the familiar, one's own world entering a foreign one and a foreign world touching familiar spheres. Mutual interaction between understanding and incomprehension, as an exercise to focus on real truthfulness. And of course in these poems always a companion: a smile. Present in its whole range from a soft warm smile only as a guess on one's lips to a sometimes even bitterly sarcastic ironic grin, may be the only answer in a confusingly unusual time.

Marcellus M. Menke: Marcellus M. Menke engagiert sich für Entwicklung und Realisation von Projekten aus den Bereichen Kunst, Musik, Literatur und Bildung. Dabei ist ihm das Aufzeigen von Beziehungen und das Sichtbarmachen von Zusammenhängen wichtig. In der von ihm initiierten und betreuten editionHIC[ veröffentlicht er neben eigenen Texten auch ihm wichtige Texte anderer Autoren. Von ihm geförderte Projekte aus dem Bereich der bildenden Kunst finden in der conTEMPart-Edition ihre Heimat. In seinem Projekt "buchmanufaktur.m4art.de" schafft er Bücher, die es erst in der Zukunft gibt. Marcellus M. Menke is committed to the development and realization of projects in the fields of art, music, literature and education. For him it is important to reveal relationships and to make connections visible. In editionHIC[, which he initiated and supervises, he publishes his own texts as well as texts by other authors vital to him. Projects from the field of visual arts that he promotes find their home in the conTEMPart edition. In his project "buchmanufaktur.m4art.de" he creates books that will come into existence in the future.