Hydra's Heads by Nora Gomringer, transl. by Annie Rutherford. Inua Ellams Requiem is an amazingly measured

Requiem is an amazingly measured and considered narrative of loss and survival

but in the end she sings a song which affirms that flawed humanity is indeed perfectible

his From the Fortunate Isles: New and Selected Poems

but in the existential accommodation she envisages with the world

’ – Ian Pople

Hydra's Heads by Nora Gomringer, transl. by Annie Rutherford. Inua Ellams Requiem is an amazingly measuredGerman poet Nora Gomringer is here translated into English for the first time by Scottish poet and editor Annie Rutherford. There is no simple equivalent to Nora Gomringer in the UK but Kae Tempest is perhaps the closest in terms of the way she is experimental wile remaining accessible and in her ability to stride seamlessly from stage to page to film to literature festival. These are poems which defy categorisation interweaving the best of page and