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All Under One RoofPoemsEvelyn SchlagTranslated by Karen Leeder![]()
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ISBN: 978 1 784102 24 1 Categories: 21st Century, Austrian, German, Translation, Women Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Published: June 2018 216 x 135 x 9 mm 104 pages Publisher: Carcanet Press Also available in: eBook (Kindle), eBook (PDF), eBook (EPUB)
Featured in The Telegraph's Poetry Book of the Month The Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation for Summer 2018 The Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag, whose 2004 Selected Poems received the coveted Schlegel Tieck Prize, returns with All under One Roof. Once more, Karen Leeder’s brilliant translations render a selection of Schlag’s most recent poems into English. The book draws on two substantial German-language collections, Sprache von Love remains a central theme for Schlag, but an associative inward journey with new diction, and new Leeder’s selection traces a uniquely Austrian imagination at the heart of contemporary European poetry.
Awards won by Evelyn Schlag
Winner, 2018 The Hay Festival Medal for Poetry
Winner, 2018 Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation
(All Under One Roof) Winner, 2005 Schlegel-Tieck Prize For German Translation (Selected Poems)
'A poet whose attitude and method are equally fascinating.'
Dilys Wood, Artemis Poetry 'With such an eclectic display of witty, moving and inventive poetry in All Under One Roof, Evelyn Schlag has once again proved herself to be a very fine poet. Her themes jump from the Euro tunnel to Paula Radcliffe to her first plaits, but her overarching theme is love in all its guises.' Emma Quick, The London Magazine 'The careful translation by Karen Leeder of every aspect of Schlag's writing is essential in understanding the depth of each image and metaphor(...) I am struck by how much these poems affect me despite their apparent simplicity. In the poem "We Did Not Carry" for example, Schlag writes "Absence hurts from wherever you are", and the lines sliced through to my core, and I am relieved to know that, through the medicine of her words, that I am not the only one trying to make sense of the heaviness of life.' Sarah Warren, World Literature in Review 'Witty, tender, occasionally baffling, often sexy, this is a selection from her two latest collections, Language of a Different Stripe (2008) and Racing in Slo-Mo (2014)... moving in startling leaps and bounds, these poems are anything but slo-mo.' Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month, June 2018 'The beauty of it (in the translation) lies in the precision of tone and detail that opens onto a world of irony and ambiguity that is, nonetheless, serious and tender. Poems on politics, persona and place are treated with the same quizzical sharp-tenderness. We have entered a realm beyond the confines of the apparently simple theme.The power of the book lies in its ability constantly to move us further yet deeper. Leeder's language has a sinuosity and flow that is utterly convincing.' George Szirtes, Poetry Book Society Summer Bulletin 2018 Joe Darlington, The Manchester Review of Books |
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