Velvel's Violin by Jacqueline Saphra
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023
John Glenday Leeder's English selection traces a

Leeder's English selection traces a uniquely Austrian imagination at the heart of contemporary European poetry

and the hot terror of damnation burns black in every shadow

‘A poetry of things and people

ambition and content

Velvel's Violin by Jacqueline Saphra<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023</b><br> John Glenday Leeder's English selection traces aVelvels Violin, a deeply moving and political fifth collection by TS Eliot Prize shortlisted poet Jacqueline Saphra places us on the shifting ground between past and present. Through its search for missing histories of the Jewish diaspora, the book is a call for empathy and a warning to a world where the legacy of the Holocaust echoes current narratives of prejudice, war, displacement, and migration. Saphras precisely tuned writing ranges through