The Taste of Lightning is a new selection of poems by Ivan V. Lalić, one of 20th-century Yugoslavia’s most crucial poets.
‘Lalić’s work…crackles with brilliant, arresting imagery forged by the heat of concentrated thought...' – Celia Hawkesworth, The Independent

This new book from Pia Tafdrup (trans. David McDuff) brings together the third, fourth and fifth collections in her Senses Quintet. Bloodaxe published the first two parts, The Taste of Steel and The Smell of Snow, in one volume in 2021.

‘Venclova is a lyric poet of magisterial allure, committed to philosophical meditations…Part exile, part seer, he is the artist as witness and a living example of a literary elite that evolved in crisis yet remained true to the dictates of art.’ – Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

The launch event for our November titles is tonight at 7pm GMT on YouTube. Watch live or later on YouTube to enjoy readings from the poets & translators, plus discussion with Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley.

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@marjorielotfi.bsky.social

“If structural violence – settler colonialism, empire – sustains itself by insisting that the past is past, Lotfi’s poetry works to remind us that violence in actuality operates as a series of ‘not yets’ and deferrals”

Yumi Pak reviews THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK
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Take out his heart,
lungs, one arm, the whole
belly, and the belt strap
that holds it all in place.
Let the lighthouse beacon
throw its false light
through him…

—Marjorie Lotfi, “Refuge”
in THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2023
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