Kaffeeklatsch is a journal of poetry and criticism, interested in new creativity and translation. You can read bits and pieces from the magazine here, or – to find out what we’re about – you can try and make some sense of our manifesto. Alternatively, just tool around using the menu on the left, and make yourself at home.
Visit our blog, Zagmuk, over here, for reviews, comment and words.
Kaffeeklatsch is edited by Joey Connolly, Matthew Halliday, and Nadia Connor. A 'Kaffeeklatsch' is an occasion for idle chatter over coffee; the OED has 'kaffeeklatsch' as "Gossip over coffee cups". How nice!
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"Poetry, so often the most alienating of forms, is given a wonderfully refreshing treatment by Kaffeeklatsch. I’m sure all readers of poetry, from the new and bewildered to the old hands who think they’ve seen it all, will find something to enjoy and ponder over here. Take a few minutes out, grab a coffee cup. Life’s too short to not intersperse it with pleasures like this. […] It’s that rare thing – a venture that truly marches to the beat of its own drum. Although no doubt it would sharply rebuff the idea of even possessing a regular rhythm."
- Sarah Handyside, in Blank Pages 43
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To see some informative and clumsy 'About Us' articles we rejected for this space, click here. We don't know why you might do this (although "Gloom and solemnity", Pound gives us, "are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man", my italics), but stranger things, we've heard, have happened at sea.