Dark Night by John of the Cross, translated by Martha Sprackland
Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Summer 2026 Theresa Lola This book is unmissable: human

This book is unmissable: human and humane

thoughtful and wide-ranging poet

to leave behind one beautiful book”

but he has kept returning to the landscape of a quintessentially English (and technically non-existent) county

Bethany Handley

Dark Night by John of the Cross, translated by Martha Sprackland <br><b>Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Summer 2026</b> Theresa Lola This book is unmissable: humanPublished 21 May 2026 O living flame of love, how tenderly you scorch me The poetry of the sixteenth century Spanish mystic, John of the Cross, has inspired and consoled for hundreds of years, influencing writers from James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill to T. S. Eliot and Mary Oppen. This new edition of his essential works, in a sensitive and luminous translation by Martha Sprackland, gathers John of the Crosss complete poems and a selection