Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku
PBS Recommended Translation Spring 2018 Carol Ann Duffy This is more that a

This is more that a sweeping up exercise

And other books including Mangoes and Bullets and Lovelines for a Goat-Born Lady featuring some of Agard’s best-known poems… ‘Listen Mr Oxford Don’

war poet Edward Thomas was killed during the First World War

Gógan from the revival period (1893-1939)

as ‘visionary’ and ‘exciting’

Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku <br> <b> PBS Recommended Translation Spring 2018 </b> Carol Ann Duffy This is more that aAlbanias Luljeta Lleshanaku grew up in negative space, living under family house arrest during the years of Enver Hoxhas autocratic communist rule. Her recent poems are a response to what was missing then, not only in her life but for her whole generation, evoking absences, emptiness what was unseen, unspoken or undone through the concept of negative space. The space around objects, not the objects themselves, becomes the real, most significant part