The Kabul Olympics by John McAuliffe anthology Di Giorgio’s writing transforms everything

Di Giorgio’s writing transforms everything it touches—a lily

friendship and the deaths of friends

The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations

as well as historical figures

The Kabul Olympics by John McAuliffe anthology Di Giorgio’s writing transforms everythingThe Kabul Olympics is a book of impossible places, from the imagined Kabul of the title poem to City of Trees which conjures an alternate, parallel Manchester in the aftermath of the Arena bombing, from a plane spiralling ever upwards into the eye of a storm in Godsend to the becalmed travels of The Harbours, a sequence which reflects on nationalism and border crossing. Many of these poems find themselves in the dark, on journeys whose destinations