Assembly Lines by Jane Commane Kristín Ómarsdóttir Hölderlin translated all his writing

Hölderlin translated all his writing life

not only in her life but for her whole generation

The dog of memory

already known for translations of Mexican poets

These encounters with the strange

Assembly Lines by Jane Commane Kristín Ómarsdóttir Hölderlin translated all his writingAssembly Lines asks what it means to be here and now, in post industrial towns and cities of the heartlands that are forever on the periphery. From schools and workplaces and lives lived in a different town, just like this, these poems take a historical perspective on the present day from the ground upwards whether the geological strata that underpins a dithering island or the ever moving turf under a racehorses hooves. This is a new Midlands realism,