Heavy WatersEd Lukers hotly anticipated collection Heavy Waters and is a mixture of poetic and prosaic workings on the sea, borders, and border violence. This edition comes with a foreword from Verity Spott, in which she writes that the book is: [a] collection of poetry that has resolved to speak of the terrifying crossings; the depth weighed up, the air weighed down human lives pushed and pulled, fleeing and returning in the crisis who longs for our silence, in

translated by Julian Farmer

separating

this pamphlet is a circus of swans

both of which ran to reprints and had good reviews on both sides of the Atlantic

“If it hadn’t been for Sara’s courage

including the haunting ‘Créde’s Lament’

wildness and later

Michael Strunge was one of the key protagonists of the Danish 1980s poetry scene

When millions of locusts decimate the harvest

Meet My Father

and eighteen-year-old Lillie Carrigan is desperate to love and be loved

and living as an atheist in a society not quite recovered from its quasi-theocratic past – the book climaxes in a bravura sequence that imagines the poet’s own final journey as a fantasia of Hitchcockian intrigue set in a Paris of the imagination