Salamander Sun and other poems by Pia Tafdrup, translated by David McDuff Danez Smith effortlessly spans the Atlantic

effortlessly spans the Atlantic

and the artist Tàpies all appear in his pages

sustaining

a Medieval English poem thought to be by the same anonymous author responsible for Gawain

and the last of which dates from the time he spent undergoing ‘re-education through labour’ – and digging graves – during the mid-1970s

Salamander Sun and other poems by Pia Tafdrup, translated by David McDuff Danez Smith effortlessly spans the AtlanticPia Tafdrup is one of Denmarks leading poets. She has received the Nordic Literature Prize Scandinavias most prestigious literary award and the Swedish Academys Nordic Prize. This new translation of her work combines two recent collections, The Migrant Birds Compass and Salamander Sun, which comprise the third and fourth parts of a quartet written over ten years: the first two parts are The Whales in Paris and Tarkovsky's Horses (published in English