Moss & Silver by Jure Detela, transl. by Raymond Miller and Tatjana Jamnik F Starik ‘Matthew Sweeney is a hugely

‘Matthew Sweeney is a hugely talented poet and this is a richly imagined and rewarding collection in which he is writing at the height of his powers

remarkably

exceptionally felicitous marriage of poetry and politics

Louise Gluck

 Days of Gracespans over forty years of her poetic output

Moss & Silver by Jure Detela, transl. by Raymond Miller and Tatjana Jamnik F Starik ‘Matthew Sweeney is a hugelyThe forty four poems of Moss & Silver anticipate the radical environmentalism and animal rights activism of the 21st century while engaging in a passionate dialogue with wide array of poets from William Wordsworth to Kobayashi Issa. Although he often railed against the defenders of Slovene [traditional poetic] beauty and the tyranny of metaphor, Detela was a meticulous craftsman who employed a stunning variety of rhythms and stanzaic forms. Moss &