Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees by Jan Wagner, translated by Iain Galbraith W S Merwin You sly devil

You sly devil

He also organises Peter Barlow's Cigarette reading series

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Selected Poems gathers together the best of Gillian Clarke's poetry in a single volume

disappointments and joys to the point of almost overflowing

Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees by Jan Wagner, translated by Iain Galbraith W S Merwin You sly devilSelf Portrait with a Swarm of Bees, to be published in Arc's flagship translation series 'Visible Poets', combines the poet's unerring instinct for the surprising perspective on commonplace objects or events plants, animals, landscapes with a mischievous delight in the detail of the absurd, the precarious balance. Wagner is a vigilant, yet playful, chronicler of the quotidian, his meticulous handling of image and sound forging a worldly, almost