The Sight of Light • The Sound of Clouds • The Touch of Skin by Pia Tafdrup, trans. David McDuff Alexander Tvardovsky Grounded in seasonal fieldwork and

Grounded in seasonal fieldwork and close observation

Her work ultimately reflects on universal issues

not only through the labyrinthine paths of pain and loss

the seal and shark

The Sight of Light • The Sound of Clouds • The Touch of Skin by Pia Tafdrup, trans. David McDuff Alexander Tvardovsky Grounded in seasonal fieldwork andPublished 20th November 2025. Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmarks leading poets. She has published over 20 books in Danish since her first collection appeared in 1981, including widely admired sequences of themed collections. The latest of these is a series of five books focussing on the human senses, her Senses Quintet (2014 2022), which the critic Carsten Palmer Schale has called a cathedral of the soul and the best collection of poems written in