The Martians Regress by J.O. Morgan Irene Koronas and that was the start

and that was the start / of you being dead

’ – Wislawa Szymborska

carrying as much of their strangeness as possible into his English

Luljeta Lleshanaku belongs to the first “post-totalitarian” generation of Albanian poets

The only escape from the imposed absolute of non-being is resolution to go forward irrationally free

The Martians Regress by J.O. Morgan Irene Koronas and that was the startShortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2020 A lone martian returns to Earth. He leaves behind him a hardened survivalist culture, its muddled myths and songs, its continued abuse of the environment that sustains it. During this journey back to the now broken and long abandoned mother planet, the martian begins to consider his own uncertain origins, and his own future. Cut off from his people, the martian's story is that of the individual: his duty at