but first i call your name by Hadassa Tal trans. By Joanna Chen Ciaran Berry The range of poetry here

The range of poetry here complements that of the first three anthologies: hundreds of thoughtful and powerful poems about living in the modern world

The poet never seeks sympathy but invites us to laugh

and even school prize-day addresses

“Carolyn Jess-Cooke

but first i call your name by Hadassa Tal trans. By Joanna Chen Ciaran Berry The range of poetry here"Hadassa Tals poetry is a manuscript of pain and beauty. How beautiful is all this beauty, she writes, How will I surrender you to the ground. But the power of these poems is just that: they do not surrender beauty to the ground. They give it to the wind, to the water, to the dance, they elevate it higher than the dome of thought, they sift through the death from the death within. These broken poems create the elusive miracle that allows us to grasp