Though the Sky Is Embroidered by a Zigzagging Bat: Selected Poems by Olga Stehlíková, translated by David Vichnar PRE-ORDER Michael Mackmin and quiet breathing

and quiet breathing

part-arcadian

and in order to begin his search Chris must face down his own dread

uncanny and otherworldly

Though the Sky Is Embroidered by a Zigzagging Bat: Selected Poems by Olga Stehlíková, translated by David Vichnar PRE-ORDER Michael Mackmin and quiet breathingOlga Stehlkovs poems fashion new worlds, recognisable as our own planet, but not quite as weve seen it before. Her images are continually surprising, the language even more so, the humour pitch dark. David Vichnars vibrant translations ably convey the unconventionality of the original Czech in poems that never stray from deep human concerns and anxieties: a camera takes the place of a crucifix above a hospital ward door, a face reflected in a swimming