Abandoned Gardens: new & selected Poems by Alice Kavounas Picador and sometimes I think it

and sometimes I think it is

Instead of pouting

The Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag

Later from the darkness comes a new cycle of death and life

Poems become pliable

Abandoned Gardens: new & selected Poems by Alice Kavounas Picador and sometimes I think itIve been a dedicated reader of Alice Kavounass poetry for many years now, always delighted by her clarity and deeply serious wit, her splendid awareness of the realities around her, which is a capacious world that seems only to widen as one reads her poems. She seems able to inhabit and transform any urban or rural landscape into an interior paradise, a place of refuge, as her imagination pushes back against the worlds pressure. This is visionary