Bitter Grass by Gëzim Hajdari, trans. by Ian Seed Roisin Kelly This is where Songlines come

This is where Songlines come in

Poetry Book Society Autumn Special Commendation 2017

stealing a tiny wheel one day

all the while managing to balance her trademark flickering candle-lit lyrics with found poems

Bitter Grass by Gëzim Hajdari, trans. by Ian Seed Roisin Kelly This is where Songlines come"Bitter Grass was written in 1976 while I was in my last year of high school in the city of Lushnj in Albania. It was refused by N. Frashri, the government publication house in Tirana. According to the censor, the texts in this collection do not deal with the theme of our socialist village; the hero of the poems is a solitary person who flees from his contemporaries, from the Youth Association, from reality; moreover, the transformations that