call me

           comienza con la mudanza de la poeta a Londres y concluye con su partida, con fragmentos de una llamada entre medias. Los poemas de call me pueden leerse como notas o cartas que intentan conectar con alguien, aferrarse al amor y al lenguaje en el contexto de una nueva ciudad. Los poemas atraviesan el inglés, el español y el catalán, extrayendo significado de cada lengua y cuestionando concepciones monoculturales y monolingües de nuestras realidades.

                                                                                                                                llámame xxx

Laia Sales Merino’s debut pamphlet is a beautiful call. It is a long distance call to a country the poet no longer lives in. It is a gentle phone call to a former lover. It is a calling out to men who do horrendous things. These are poems for anyone caught between: between cities, lovers, languages. I let it wash over me like a voice note from a friend who just needs to talk: I found comfort, joy, laughter and sadness here. Merino has done some extraordinary work, melding languages together like two voices harmonising in a choir or shouting to each other on a night bus. I loved it. – Lewis Buxton

Laia Sales Merino’s stunning poetry shines tender light on belonging, connection, movement, loss and desire. Technically assured, effortlessly flitting across languages, memory and space, call me illuminates movement between, from, through and towards. An evocative pamphlet – poetry that glimmers under the skin.– Sussie Anie