New and Selected Sorrows by Goran Simić John Ashbery and annotated with contextual notes

and annotated with contextual notes and background information including dates

Based on a thousand mile road trip through New South Wales

"Katherine Gallagher's new collection is bejewelled throughout with haiku-like moments of vivid observation

A controlled but fast-paced forward movement in the writing draws the reader along at an exhilarating pace

New and Selected Sorrows by Goran Simić John Ashbery and annotated with contextual notesNew and Selected Sorrows draws on Goran Simis earlier collections, From Sarajevo with Sorrow, Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman and Immigrant Blues, together with many new poems published in English for the first time. It is a book about passports and borders, rats and wolves, soldiers and ghosts. It is a record of the realities and the unrealities of life in the Balkans, narrated by an ordinary man with ears of ordinary silk, whose sees the face of