New and Selected Sorrows by Goran Simić John Ashbery and annotated with contextual notes

and annotated with contextual notes and background information including dates

‘Reading these new poems and returning to those read decades ago has been a delight because Ormsby is a poet of enviable gifts

Based on a thousand mile road trip through New South Wales

She points out the absurdities we've grown too used to and lets us see the world with fresh eyes’ Kae Tempest

Time behaves differently in The House of Ghosts and Mirrors

New and Selected Sorrows by Goran Simić John Ashbery and annotated with contextual notesNew and Selected Sorrows draws on Goran Simis earlier collections, From Sarajevo with Sorrow, Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman and Immigrant Blues, together with many new poems published in English for the first time. It is a book about passports and borders, rats and wolves, soldiers and ghosts. It is a record of the realities and the unrealities of life in the Balkans, narrated by an ordinary man with ears of ordinary silk, whose sees the face of