Glut Format:PaperbackRamona Herdmans Glut is a lush, entertaining, and bittersweet collection of poems about how we live together and find meaning through rules and rituals around food, family, alcohol, work, nature, sex and love. These vividly realised, nimble poems probe at the delicate balancing acts we our bodies and our minds perform in life: between power and trust, between convention and rebellion, and between what is enough and what is too much. All the time,
But only a daughter can shave off her parents’ hair and bury it along with her mother’s womb
or disturbingly with teenage homophobia
resulting in a roster as diverse in perspective as it is free-wheeling and wild with its variety of form and style
Modern Poetry in Translation Third Series
to recognise their privilege
”For a Cockney brought up in an orphanage because his Italian-rooted father died early
and philosophy
who promises to hold the future to account
These new translations are by acclaimed translator and poet David Constantine
along with commentary from Adrian Lawson on the flowers depicted
though the nature of innocence is thoroughly deconstructed
A Different Kind of Woman and An Exceptional Passer-by
