Shining Sheep – Poems (The German List) - Hardcover

Sandig, Ulrike Almut; Leeder, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1803092521 ISBN 13: 9781803092522

Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

A collection of vital, melancholic, elemental, and vibrantly contemporary poems.

In the beginning, was the light, or was it the Lumières? In Ulrike Almut Sandig’s latest volume of poetry, it is only a leap from the creation of the world to the symphony of the Berlin metropolis. And there is a question holding out off the coast of Lampedusa: Can shining sheep be used as night storage for the dark hours, when we are overwhelmed with fears of God, of a gym teacher with a whistle, of mothers with eyes as black as coal? In devastating sequences, Sandig charts the reality of an abused child, victims of contemporary war, or a fourteenth-century Madonna. Full of humor, musicality, lightness, and rage, Shining Sheep is not just visual poetry―it has loops in your ear and filmic explosions of imagery for all your senses.

About this title

About the Author

Ulrike Almut Sandig has written five volumes of poetry, along with short stories and a novel Monsters Like Us, also published by Seagull. She often works with filmmakers, sound artists, and musicians, including especially her poetry-band Landschaft. Karen Leeder is a writer, critic, and prize-winning translator of contemporary German literature including work by Durs Grünbein, Volker Braun, Michael Krüger, Evelyn Schlag, and Raoul Schrott.

Edition details

• Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 10: 1803092521
• ISBN 13: 9781803092522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 132