EVENT CANCELLED! Ann Cotten: Poller. Idyllen

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The author presents the volume and reads a selection of poems. Introduction by Gregor H. Lersch.

In Poller. Idyllen, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2026, Ann Cotten presents a collection of poetry that brings the tradition of bucolic verse into the imagery and lived realities of the present. Taking Theocritus’s ancient idylls as her point of departure, she explores the forms that the seemingly natural, rural and harmonious can assume under contemporary social conditions and within today’s media landscape.

The poems combine precise observations of real situations with an approach to language that is both playful and reflective. Individual details become markers of time and points of connection where the present, memory and literary tradition converge. Cotten treats language as a reusable material: existing texts and images are taken up, reassembled and placed in unexpected contexts.

The volume is complemented by symbolic images created by the author.

Ann Cotten © Bogenberger Autorenfotos

Ann Cotten (b. 1982) is a writer and translator. Her publications include Fremdwörterbuchsonette (2007), Florida-Räume (2011), Der schaudernde Fächer (2013), Verbannt! (2016), Jikiketsugaki. Tsurezuregusa (2017), Fast Dumm (2017), Was geht (2018), Lyophilia (2019), Die Anleitungen der Vorfahren (2023), Poller. Idyllen (2026) and Texte für Aliens (2026). Since 2020, she has been working on her PhD project, Misuseability. A Camp Materialist Poetics That Also Works for Nonhumans. Since 2023, she has been co-editor of Triëdere, a journal of literature and theory. Ann Cotten was awarded the Rome Prize by the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo for 2025/26.

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