Songs of Cifar and the Sweet Sea by Pablo Antonio Cuadra, trans. by Adam Feinstein Daljit Nagra as Claire Askew has noted

as Claire Askew has noted

alongside fellow species

unsettling landscapes

Challis adds new energy to the poetry of history

Songs of Cifar and the Sweet Sea by Pablo Antonio Cuadra, trans. by Adam Feinstein Daljit Nagra as Claire Askew has notedPablo Antonio Cuadra (19122002) was one of Nicaragua's great 20th century poets. In this lyrical epic, the inevitable Homeric background for the tale of wandering sailor underpins the contemporary Nicaraguan reality of The Great Lake (Lake Nicaragua the "sweet sea" of the title), rather than the Aegean. The language is deceptively colloquial, plain even, as befits the real people of his narrative, but he reveals the richness of life on the Lake and