Latest novel The Night Brother is described by The Times as “a delight: playful and exuberant… with shades of Angela Carter
These knowledgeable and verdant poems draw deeply on botanical and ecological detail and reveal secret histories thriving in the gaps between definitions
In its evocations of doubt and responsibility
Jon Glover wrote most of the poems in this collection before his wife's sudden death from cancer in 2019
Pitch and Glint by Lutz Seiler, translated by Stefan Tobler<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE AUTUMN 2023</b><br> #canvasbags Latest novel The Night BrotherOn its original publication in 2000, Pitch & Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry. Rooted in Seiler's childhood home, an East German village brutally undermined by Soviet Russian uranium extraction, these propulsive poems are highly personal, porous, twisting, cadenced, cryptic and earthy, traversing the rural sidelines of European history with undeniable evocative force. The frailty of bodies, a nearness to materials and manual
