My Deep and Gorgeous Thirst by Ellen McAteer dedalus press and was Spain’s most widely

and was Spain’s most widely acclaimed contemporary poet

Land to Light On explores intimacies and disaffections with nationality and the nation-state

and of desire

The judges were impressed by the unusual degree of formal pressure exerted by Szirtes on his themes of memory and the impossibility of forgetting

My Deep and Gorgeous Thirst by Ellen McAteer dedalus press and was Spain’s most widelyMy Deep and Gorgeous Thirst is a first collection of poetry by Ellen McAteer, mentee of Alexander Hutchison and Rachel Long, founder of tell it slant poetry bookshop in Glasgow and Publishing Manager of the Poetry Translation Centre in London. The poems follow a journey from genderless tomboy to womanhood, through trauma, danger, motherhood, menopause, alcohol abuse, and the loss of her parents to cancer. The journey is mapped through the migration of