every robin i never quite saw by Sonya Smith Robin Robertson Hannah Bagshaw

Hannah Bagshaw

uncollected poems

with facing English translations by the poet herself

There are poems about the slow life of trees which establish links across time and space

and the transcendent shock of prophecy

every robin i never quite saw by Sonya Smith Robin Robertson Hannah BagshawBeneath a deceptively calm surface, a powerful voice offers original slants on the ambiguous aspects of loving people. Aspects that are hard to talk directly about and are somehow deeply entwined with the natural world. These poems are placed at compass points encircling the object of love, whether that be another person or oneself, sensually embracing everything that interrupts the view.