Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku
PBS Recommended Translation Spring 2018 Carol Ann Duffy on What the Water Gave

on What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo

Wear and Tees of the title (from Vin Garbutt’s song ‘John North’)

And other books including Mangoes and Bullets and Lovelines for a Goat-Born Lady featuring some of Agard’s best-known poems… ‘Listen Mr Oxford Don’

or 'Funeral Blues' itself

Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku <br> <b> PBS Recommended Translation Spring 2018 </b> Carol Ann Duffy on What the Water GaveAlbanias Luljeta Lleshanaku grew up in negative space, living under family house arrest during the years of Enver Hoxhas autocratic communist rule. Her recent poems are a response to what was missing then, not only in her life but for her whole generation, evoking absences, emptiness what was unseen, unspoken or undone through the concept of negative space. The space around objects, not the objects themselves, becomes the real, most significant part