Fower Pessoas by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Colin Bramwell Patrick McGuinness these poems unsettle the boundaries

these poems unsettle the boundaries between past and present

written – the author claimed – between 1919 and 1930

The beauty of imagery and rhythm is matched by the subtlety of the poet’s thought

religious fundamentalism and the distrust/fear of the other’ – Nilufer Bharucha

Fower Pessoas by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Colin Bramwell Patrick McGuinness these poems unsettle the boundariesFower Pessoas is the most original work of translation that you will read this year: a bold reimagining of Fernando Pessoa's poetry, done by an exciting next generation poet from Scotland. Following its subject's unique approach to composition, Colin Bramwell puts all four of Pessoa's main poetic personae into a present day Scots language vernacular, and so creates a parochial Pessoa for our own times. The language of the work is designed to reflect