Thick of It by Ulrike Almut Sandig, trans. by Karen Leeder Fred D’Aguiar repositioning the river as sacred

repositioning the river as sacred space in a rapidly gentrifying London

of births and becoming

Asia and Latin America

David Wheatley twins his birthplace and his current home

we are magicians of the Alps –

Thick of It by Ulrike Almut Sandig, trans. by Karen Leeder Fred D’Aguiar repositioning the river as sacredThe poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic. This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories. Thick of It charts a journey through two hemispheres to the center of the world and navigates a thicket that is at once the world, the psyche, and language itself. The poems explore an urgently urban reality, but that reality is interwoven with references to nightmares, the Bible, fairy tales, and nursery rhymesall