Karen Leeder

Porcelain – Poem on the Downfall of My City is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade. Together, they serve as a lament for Durs Grünbein’s hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. The book is at once a history and a “declaration of love” to the...

Ulrike Almut Sandig’s second volume of poems to be translated into English is a journey through a world that is imaginary yet entirely recognisable. Precise observation of the concrete is mixed with playful humour, inspired musicality, and an anxious reckoning with undercurrents of violence in these poems from Ulrike Almut Sandig. Borrowing from the Brothers Grimm, the collection explores the...