Delighted by the kind comments by judge George Szirtes and the PBS Spring Selectors about the new collection from Seagull: Ulrike Almut Sandig's Thick of it
I also liked Karen Leeder's translations of Ulrike Almut Sandig's Thick of it (Seagull). Sandig's poems move with delicacy and sharpness between the objects of the real world and hints of what threatens them'.
George Szirtes
'Ulrike Almut Sandig began her poetic career pasting poems onto lamp posts in Leipzig. Her poems are free 'slender shadows' crossing geographies and time. Beautifully crafted and achingly modern, this collection journeys through language and the imagination 'into the thicket' of words and the world. Restless and precarious, Thick if it is a truly mesmerising collection, full of energy and urgency'.