In Winter Light Ina Rilke and in less than 100

and in less than 100 pages manages to encapsulate an extraordinary scope and depth

They span places as far afield as Belfast

This is a work of great beauty

in Burma during the Second World War

In Winter Light Ina Rilke and in less than 100la lumire dhiver (1977) is a central work in the writing of the Swiss French poet Philippe Jaccottet (1925 2021). Written in middle age, it forms a bridge between the poets intricate early lyrics and his more expansive and meditative later work. Starting from a direct confrontation with the raw facts of mortality, its three poem sequences strip away further layers of illusion until a glimmer of meaning starts to appear in the winter light of the