Shortlisted for the 2025 A. M. Klein Poetry Prize

The event represents the lyrical, but an attempt at defining the event endlessly defers meaning—poetry readings, death, belonging, the digital and— Post-Mortem of the Event is a cyclical archive that twists back to recorded readings of Klara du Plessis’s earlier Hell Light Flesh and leans forward to invoke a still unwritten manuscript. Here poetic composition encompasses audiovisual media, transcription, wave form visualization, and digital humanities and interdisciplinary methods. With the maturity of three previous collections, Du Plessis presents a brilliant expansion of her musical yet essayistic poetics.

Purchase: Palimpsest Press, 2024

Reviews

“Elusive Wavelengths as Corporealized Poetics.” Margaryta Golovchenko. Arc Poetry. Summer, No. 107.

“A review of Post-Mortem of the Event by Klara du Plessis.” Deborah Herman. Contemporary Verse II, volume 48, no. 1, Summer 2025.

“A review of Post-Mortem of the Event.” Carlos A. Pittella. Montreal Review of Books. Fall Issue 2024.

“‘This is a document of affect’: On Klara du Plessis’ Post-Mortem of the Event.” Alan Reed. Periodicities: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics. 4 October 2024.

Interviews

“Klara du Plessis Answers Four Questions for Erín Moure.” 14 February 2024.