Heroines from Abroad by Christine Marendon, transl. by Ken Cockburn poetry yet infused with darker undercurrents

yet infused with darker undercurrents and nightmarish imagery

anti-Semitic

a reclamation of stolen ancestors

in a language and style of verse that were emphatically modern

Heroines from Abroad by Christine Marendon, transl. by Ken Cockburn poetry yet infused with darker undercurrentsHeroines from Abroad introduces a vibrant new voice to the English language. Christine Marendons enigmatic, meditative poems, translated here from the German and collected for the first time, draw on dreams, fairy tales and childhood memories to tap into a world beyond conscious reach. Marendons poems do not present ideas so much as embody states of mind. Something is realised through the poem, rather than said within it. Here, the voice is more