Though the Sky Is Embroidered by a Zigzagging Bat: Selected Poems by Olga Stehlíková, translated by David Vichnar PRE-ORDER Michael Mackmin Belgian poet Charlotte Van den

Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck was acclaimed as one of Europe’s most innovative and original new voices in poetry following the publication of her first collection Chameleon in 2015

part-arcadian

and in order to begin his search Chris must face down his own dread

brought vividly to life in English by her long-time translator and award-winning poet Marilyn Hacker

our pidgin

Though the Sky Is Embroidered by a Zigzagging Bat: Selected Poems by Olga Stehlíková, translated by David Vichnar PRE-ORDER Michael Mackmin Belgian poet Charlotte Van denOlga Stehlkovs poems fashion new worlds, recognisable as our own planet, but not quite as weve seen it before. Her images are continually surprising, the language even more so, the humour pitch dark. David Vichnars vibrant translations ably convey the unconventionality of the original Czech in poems that never stray from deep human concerns and anxieties: a camera takes the place of a crucifix above a hospital ward door, a face reflected in a swimming