Birdbook: Saltwater and Shore is the final volume of Sidekick’s hugely ambitious Birdbook series
Animals gaze at their human companions who gaze back
McFarlane’s intricate lines make record of injustice and mark the names of those who have lost their lives and dignity to prejudice and hatred
my shadow on this un-lit road
the dark seaweed sparkle of a particular strand of skewed folklore
The Catalan Poems by Pere Gimferrer, trans. Adrian West Richard Meier Birdbook: Saltwater and Shore isSpains greatest living poet, Pere Gimferrer (b. 1945) has written more than thirty books spanning verse, fiction, essay, and criticism. His earliest writings appeared in Spanish. In 1970 he began publishing in Catalan, and has alternated between the two languages since (with occasional forays into French and Italian). The present collection, the first book length publication of Gimferrers Catalan poetry in English, brings together work from all phases