Inside Voices, Outside Light Allison McVety

Inside Voices, Outside Light Allison McVetyThe latest in Arcs Translation Series brings poems from Sigurur Plssons ten collections written between 1980 and 2008 to a UK audience. Swirling with imagery, they reveal a poet committed to unearthing the joy of living and its connections to the natural world. This is a thrilling sweep across Plssons work: chronologies are upset, ideas run amok, views out onto the world close and open. Also available in limited edition hardback: ISBN 9781906570590

"A good translation suggests how the poet

strings of dried figs and green tomatoes

Liudmilla Zubova

Theodore Deppe

Martin Regal lives in Reykjavik and teaches at the University of Iceland

but true to his talent

Her work has been translated into twelve languages

That many of the names in this anthology are instantly recognisable to anyone who has even a passing interest in contemporary Irish literature is testament to that

an ostensible care for writing as fitting together a world in words as if out of nowhere

T he son of an immigrant tailor

of its grammar

His death “has left a gaping wound in the heart of modern Arabic poetry”