Love is a Place by Joan Margarit J.o. Morgan Paula Meehan’s extraordinary new collection

Paula Meehan’s extraordinary new collection is both a controlled experiment with the challenge of form and

combines the poet's unerring instinct for the surprising perspective on commonplace objects or events - plants

philosophical and human experience it confronts

Natalie Lazarus

Seamus Heaney

Love is a Place by Joan Margarit J.o. Morgan Paula Meehan’s extraordinary new collectionJoan Margarit is one of Spains major modern writers. Born in 1938, he worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish, but for the past four decades has become known for his mastery of the Catalan language, and is now, arguably, Spains most widely acclaimed contemporary poet. The melancholy and candour of his poetry show his affinity with Thomas Hardy, whose work he has translated. In the much praised Tugs in the Fog: Selected Poems