Culinary Poetry
Poets invite you to sample their wares as they sing of dumplings, praise muesli and plums, potatoes and leeks, fish and meat. Join them for a picnic, for lunch, share shopping blues and kitchen gardens. If wine is a poem, then beer is a song with many verses.
Miss Bitters is the worse for wear,
Young Doornkaat not much better when
Pommery does his very best and
Gets them on their feet again… (Simon Borowiak)
This anthology of comic culinary delights is a meeting of F.W. Bernstein, Heinrich Heine, Matthias Politycki, Robert Gernhardt, Bertolt Brecht, Katja Lange-Müller, Ror Wolf, Wilhelm Busch, Wiglaf Droste, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Jan Wagner, Thomas Gsella and many more. To their delight and ours. Christian Maintz has gathered this merry round table and cordially invites you to join him. “Out there the world is all in tatters, For now let food be all that matters!” (Fritz Eckenga)
Christian Maintz is an author and literature/media specialist. Dubbed “Hamburg’s expert for lyric and humour” (NDR Kultur), his work has twice been recognized by the Wilhelm Busch Prize for humorous and satirical verse (2002 and 2005). The editor ...
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