Schist by Karen Smith The Language of Eldorado This is a book of

This is a book of vivid contrasts: age and youth

After the battle of Brunanburh

Davis has also established himself as ‘the leading translator of Persian literature in our time’ (Washington Post) and this volume includes a selection of his celebrated translations

“Another element integral to these externalised reflections of the self is chance

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Schist by Karen Smith The Language of Eldorado This is a book ofSchist is the lovechild of emotion and geology, the product of a childhood with a schizophrenic mother and an anorexic father on a council estate in Croydon. These poems travel to where the land gives way to the sea and family stability is eroded by illness and death.