Maps of Desire by Manuel Forcano, translated by Anna Crow
PBS Recommended Translation Autumn 2019 Phonewriting as well as four pamphlets

as well as four pamphlets of poetry

The sun is an ambivalent force in these poetic narratives

‘Set mainly in London

the move to England and Cambridge University

as well as lost from ourselves

Maps of Desire by Manuel Forcano, translated by Anna Crow <br><b>PBS Recommended Translation Autumn 2019 </b> Phonewriting as well as four pamphletsManuel 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 Drawn from his four most recent collections, these poems use geographical and historical references to deepen and inform the narrative, and also to lay before the reader the idea of the continuity, over many centuries, of human love and