Diana's Tree by Alejandra Pizarnik Kate Carruthers Thomas 'Without doubt the most arresting

'Without doubt the most arresting and original new young poet - on page and in performance - to arrive

Stephen Watts

and was for many years Reviews Editor at Poetry Wales magazine

charged with an emotional force given only to those who have been to hell and returned to tell the tale

the poet says

Diana's Tree by Alejandra Pizarnik Kate Carruthers Thomas 'Without doubt the most arrestingDiana's Tree is an important book written in Paris, where she lived for four years and the first really mature work (1963) by Alejandra Pizarnik (1936 1972), increasingly recognised as one of the major poetic voices of the second half of the 20th century in Latin America. "Reading Anna Deenys incisive translation of Alejandra Pizarnik is like experiencing Walter de Marias Lightning Field not in the emotionally saturated, Pizarniks poetry has