Though the Sky Is Embroidered by a Zigzagging Bat: Selected Poems by Olga Stehlíková, translated by David Vichnar PRE-ORDER Michael Mackmin uncanny and otherworldly

uncanny and otherworldly

Then within six months his much-loved father died

I have understood:

brought vividly to life in English by her long-time translator and award-winning poet Marilyn Hacker

Though the Sky Is Embroidered by a Zigzagging Bat: Selected Poems by Olga Stehlíková, translated by David Vichnar PRE-ORDER Michael Mackmin uncanny and otherworldlyOlga Stehlkovs poems fashion new worlds, recognisable as our own planet, but not quite as weve seen it before. Her images are continually surprising, the language even more so, the humour pitch dark. David Vichnars vibrant translations ably convey the unconventionality of the original Czech in poems that never stray from deep human concerns and anxieties: a camera takes the place of a crucifix above a hospital ward door, a face reflected in a swimming