Somewhere Something is Burning Mario Levrero through ghostly meetings in pubs

through ghostly meetings in pubs and train stations

The translators from German are:

with paintings by Peter Hay specifically created for the first edition as companion pieces to the poems

Best of Irish Poetry 2009 (Southword Editions) and Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets (Ed Roddy Lumsden

Somewhere Something is Burning Mario Levrero through ghostly meetings in pubsAn examination of solitude and absence, the poems within this collection grapple with the reality and taboo of loneliness pitted against an anxiety of connecting. Exploring human relationships, breakdown in communication, and silence self inflicted or otherwise the poems give voice to the fears and experiences that shape us, and interrogate the ways in which we process and avoid. Frecknalls leaps of surreality, extreme empathy and vivid imagery make