Pitch & Glint Format:PaperbackOn its original publication in 2000, Pitch and Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry. Rooted in Seiler's childhood home, an East German village brutally undermined by Soviet Russian uranium extraction, these propulsive poems are highly personal, porous, twisting, cadenced, cryptic and earthy, traversing the rural sidelines of European history with undeniable evocative force. The frailty of bodies, a nearness to materials and manual
stepping away from the narrative form she has made her own
To win honour and unexpected love they must overcome dangerous enemies and conflicts in the depths of their hearts
they have also been raised speaking French
A London silence becomes all the more empty as the memory of ‘someone’s bashment in the valley welled/ up in my head
My Father’s Diet is equal parts Kierkegaard
was published by Penguin in 2008 (“An inspired piece of parody”
Listowel Writers' Week and The Cúirt International Festival of Literature
with plenty of rhythm
In poems that are at once formally alert and alive to the possibilities of new departure
yesterday and today
Yevtushenko and Enzensberger visited Cuba to write about the Revolution
of a corpse feeding on dirt
