Landscape with Mines by Anna Bowles poetry in translation her poetry and prose together

her poetry and prose together produced an aphoristic and incomparably quotable style

‘This traffic between the everyday and mortality requires a perfect control of tone

fed by layers of nutrient-rich peat and supporting scores of species

and unflinching

petrifying us with moments of bleakness and ushering us out of them through his humanity

Landscape with Mines by Anna Bowles poetry in translation her poetry and prose togetherAnna 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