Though the Sky Is Embroidered by a Zigzagging Bat: Selected Poems by Olga Stehlíková, translated by David Vichnar PRE-ORDER Gita Ralleigh and Dream Work

and Dream Work

and a generous selection from the work of Máirtín Ó Direáin

and now lives in Kinsale

it's unearthing the strength it takes to continue to hold one's swagger when multitudinous factors work to make Black lives crumble

and also a lament

Though the Sky Is Embroidered by a Zigzagging Bat: Selected Poems by Olga Stehlíková, translated by David Vichnar PRE-ORDER Gita Ralleigh and Dream WorkOlga Stehlkovs poems fashion new worlds, recognisable as our own planet, but not quite as weve seen it before. Her images are continually surprising, the language even more so, the humour pitch dark. David Vichnars vibrant translations ably convey the unconventionality of the original Czech in poems that never stray from deep human concerns and anxieties: a camera takes the place of a crucifix above a hospital ward door, a face reflected in a swimming