Hydra's Heads by Nora Gomringer, transl. by Annie Rutherford. Inua Ellams describing the pain of childbirth

describing the pain of childbirth or thinking about surveillance at soft play

The Blue Cat Walks the Earth is the third book in which Frank Reeve has let the Blue Cat out of the bag

but in the end she sings a song which affirms that flawed humanity is indeed perfectible

the highest non-military order of the Republic of Armenia

Requiem is an amazingly measured and considered narrative of loss and survival

Hydra's Heads by Nora Gomringer, transl. by Annie Rutherford. Inua Ellams describing the pain of childbirthGerman poet Nora Gomringer is here translated into English for the first time by Scottish poet and editor Annie Rutherford. There is no simple equivalent to Nora Gomringer in the UK but Kae Tempest is perhaps the closest in terms of the way she is experimental wile remaining accessible and in her ability to stride seamlessly from stage to page to film to literature festival. These are poems which defy categorisation interweaving the best of page and