Soul Food Emily Bilman Translation brings dead poets up

Translation brings dead poets up to date too

is a beguiling debut pamphlet with poems centred on a rich mix of themes including Tolstoy’s War and Peace

A swirling lyric entanglement of human and nonhuman bodies with climate

' - Sarah Broom

Eliot Prize-shortlisted Annie Freud

Soul Food Emily Bilman Translation brings dead poets up"Soul Food" is a feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit. Drawn from many traditions, ranging from Rumi, Kabir and Blake, to Rilke, Emily Dickinson and Paul Celan, this wide ranging selection includes enormously varied work by celebrated contemporary poets such as Jane Hirshfield, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton and Mary Oliver, as well as by many lesser known writers from all periods and places. The anthology opens with a series