The Day's Ration: Selected Poems by Gilles Ortleib, translated by Patrick McGuinness & Stephen Romer novels by poets Karen McCarthy Woolf was born

Karen McCarthy Woolf was born in London to an English mother and a Jamaican father

Faisal Mohyuddin delves into the past of his parents and their neighbours in Pakistan and India in a self-consciously impossible attempt to find some way of belonging to a place that is lost

His work is often ekphrastic and surreal in nature

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The Day's Ration: Selected Poems by Gilles Ortleib, translated by Patrick McGuinness & Stephen Romer novels by poets Karen McCarthy Woolf was bornWINNER of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation For Gilles Ortlieb, the days ration is hard won. He takes the art of noticing to a new level, petrifying us with moments of bleakness and ushering us out of them through his humanity. He states things as they are, with exactitude, with authenticity, and with humour and his voice is compelling. Ortlieb is among the very best poets writing in France today, and this bi lingual selection of his work will