Maps of Desire by Manuel Forcano, translated by Anna Crow
PBS Recommended Translation Autumn 2019 Donald Gardner His poetry is a marvel

His poetry is a marvel of syncretism: Billie Holiday

Longley has been exploring Lochalsh in the Western Highlands where his daughter the painter Sarah Longley now lives with her family

but also outward

] – she is the one by whom the language lives’

Maps of Desire by Manuel Forcano, translated by Anna Crow <br><b>PBS Recommended Translation Autumn 2019 </b> Donald Gardner His poetry is a marvelManuel Forcano, the outstanding Catalan poet, is a great traveller, and the poems in this, his first full length book in English translation, embrace the cities, the landscapes and the people of the Middle East. Drawn from his four most recent collections, these poems use geographical and historical references to deepen and inform the narrative, and also to lay before the reader the idea of the continuity, over many centuries, of human love and