Child by Amir Or, translated by Seth Michelson Helen Calcutt at the psychiatric clinic

at the psychiatric clinic

Perhaps all poetry does

but also in memory: both ancestral (his maternal grandfather tendered for the building of Sydney Harbour Bridge) and aboriginal

a darkly imaged

Child by Amir Or, translated by Seth Michelson Helen Calcutt at the psychiatric clinicChild is a luminous, nostalgic and compelling collection of poetry translated from the Hebrew of 2020 SPE Golden Wreath laureate Amir Or into English by Seth Michelson. These are lyrical, contemplative poems that pick at the mythical surfaces lurking under the sandpit and dream of the days when: the world was made of love; the light lit up the darkness. ABOUT Amir Or and Seth Michelson: Amir Or is an Israeli poet, novelist, and essayist whose works