The Language of Eldorado by Mark McWatt Mark McWatt each offering its own comfort

each offering its own comfort and wonder

seems like the obvious pick to bring the new Neruda into English

are recurrently felt as the poems negotiate their various kinds of ambivalence

their power to move comes from their reticence

Jara was arrested

The Language of Eldorado by Mark McWatt Mark McWatt each offering its own comfortWinner of the Guyana Prize, The Language of Eldorado has been long recognised as an outstanding work of Caribbean poetry. Its beauty lies in its ability to convey complex ideas through concrete images that work on the reader both sensually and intellectually. Its focus is the relationship between language, landscape and the history of human settlement in Guyana. The collection is dedicated to Wilson Harris whose challenging and paradigm changing ideas