Hydra's Heads by Nora Gomringer, transl. by Annie Rutherford. Inua Ellams woman and mother at once

woman and mother at once

’ – Ian Pople

but in the existential accommodation she envisages with the world

the highest non-military order of the Republic of Armenia

describing the pain of childbirth or thinking about surveillance at soft play

Hydra's Heads by Nora Gomringer, transl. by Annie Rutherford. Inua Ellams woman and mother at onceGerman poet Nora Gomringer is here translated into English for the first time by Scottish poet and editor Annie Rutherford. There is no simple equivalent to Nora Gomringer in the UK but Kae Tempest is perhaps the closest in terms of the way she is experimental wile remaining accessible and in her ability to stride seamlessly from stage to page to film to literature festival. These are poems which defy categorisation interweaving the best of page and