Abandoned Gardens: new & selected Poems by Alice Kavounas Picador Later from the darkness comes

Later from the darkness comes a new cycle of death and life

and sometimes I think it is

somehow continually recreating its own time and space beyond the page

The Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag

Abandoned Gardens: new & selected Poems by Alice Kavounas Picador Later from the darkness comesIve been a dedicated reader of Alice Kavounass poetry for many years now, always delighted by her clarity and deeply serious wit, her splendid awareness of the realities around her, which is a capacious world that seems only to widen as one reads her poems. She seems able to inhabit and transform any urban or rural landscape into an interior paradise, a place of refuge, as her imagination pushes back against the worlds pressure. This is visionary