Martha Sprackland
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Martha Sprackland
@marrrtha.bsky.social
Editor, writer and translator. The Poems of St John of the Cross forthcoming (Penguin Classics, 2026)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462137/dark-night-by-cross-st-john-of-the/9780241699294

marthasprackland.co.uk
Three years of work on this — my new translation of the poetry and selected prose of sixteen-century Spanish mystic St John of the Cross for Penguin Classics.



You can preorder it via all the usual bookshops or links here. www.penguin.co.uk/books/462137...
October 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Little piece on darkness by Sprackland mère, ahead of the publication of her new book, Night Vision.

www.penguin.co.uk/books/453167...

@theobserveruk.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Quorabouros
April 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Really missing a trick not having a default ‘Every 28 days’, Google Calendar
January 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This is an extrrrremely long shot but does anyone have a copy of Peter Godman's Poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance I can borrow?
November 29, 2024 at 10:12 AM
New post up on Substack, about St John of the Cross, my toddler’s penchant for purple, and half-remembered A Level Psychology studies.

open.substack.com/pub/parallel...
November 26, 2024 at 12:42 PM