Blue Room Amira Abul Husn My first translations may have

My first translations may have been my way of bridging the displacement from that country

Inner Circle and Pocket Fugues (2009)

and continue to bear comparison with current efforts to render his tenderly taxing voice

introduced by Booker Prize-winning author John Berger

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Blue Room Amira Abul Husn My first translations may haveThe poems in Blue Room traverse the features and landscapes of John Kavanaghs homeland, the West of Ireland. Throughout his work, Kavanagh is drawn into personal reflection on impending crises in our culture, ecology and environment, the signs of which are all around him. This fear for the future is balanced against the transcendent possibilities of, and insights gained from, being the father of two young boys. John Kavanagh is from Sligo. His