Ruin, BlossomJohn Burnside In this powerful, moving book, John Burnside takes his cue from Schiller, who recognised that, as one thing fades, so another flourishes: everywhere and always, in matters great and small, new life blossoms amongst the ruins. Here, in poems that explore ageing, mortality, environmental destruction and mental illness, Burnside not only mourns what is lost in passing, but also celebrates the new, and sometimes unexpected, forms that emerge

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Mirta Rosenberg (1951-2019) is a key poet of the ’80s generation in Argentina

” and cogitates on life—so furnished with all its illusions and ironies—in an age consistently defined by its constant decline

Pizarnik explored the shifting valences of the self and the border between speech and silence

she constructs a poetic portrait of her aunt who was

Gansel strives to describe what we have in common

For over fifty years Eliot Weinberger has been celebrated for his innovative literary and political essays—translated into over thirty languages—as well as his trailblazing translations from the Spanish

Gay Heaven Is a Dance Floor but I Can’t Relax proposes reading as a form of friendship

" ―Lucy Ives

and offers an accurate text with variants from all printed sources

the books are enjoyable for their small

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