Jigsaw – Clive Watkins Beperkt Aanbod

The poems and translations collected in this volume were written over a period of more than twenty years and are set in a variety of landscapes, including the poet’s native Yorkshire and locations across Europe. Many of the characters in Watkins’s work are trapped by their obsessions, condemned to blind iteration. Such are the elderly couple in “Mr and Mrs Fell Tackle the Late Summer Grasses”, who are bound together physically and by mutual rancour in the labour of mowing, and the lovers in “Museum Boijma…