Landscape with Mines by Anna Bowles
Mica Press
Anna Bowles, a British humanitarian volunteer, has made six visits to Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. In Landscape with Mines, her first pamphlet, she draws the reader into the daily struggles of those resisting existential threat or merely hoping to survive it. Her poems, in vivid and dramatic language, bear timely and compassionate witness to pain and courage under extreme circumstances. 'Few in the West pay attention to Ukraine, but Anna Bowles really sees it.' “ Kateryna Babkina, winner of the Angelus Award 2021 'With startling clarity, precise imagery, and dry wit, Bowles's razor-sharp poems draw on her experiences with soldiers and civilians in Ukraine. Her work reminds us why we read poetry, as she captures that which is too painful or inexplicable to be contained in ordinary language, and strikes right at the core of our complacence.' “ Rosamund Taylor, author of In Her Jaws 'These staccato, flickering poems skilfully record the vast and tiny harms of invasion, and the resistance it engenders, in fast-paced and hard-to-forget lines. This is a powerful pamphlet, both harsh and caring, full of love and outrage.' “ Judy Brown, author of Crowd Sensations 'Direct, surreal, haunting: in these closely observed and darkly moving poems, Anna Bowles snatches Russia's war out of the news and drops it right in front of your heart's eye.' “ Julian Evans, author of Undefeatable: Odesa in Love and War
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