These Numbered Days by Peter Huchel Ruby Robinson Campbell’s first collection explores solitude

Campbell’s first collection explores solitude

JT Welsch and Ágnes Lehóczky have assembled an anthology to mark the vital contribution of non-UK-born writers to this country’s poetry culture

Frome Festival

is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection'

These Numbered Days by Peter Huchel Ruby Robinson Campbell’s first collection explores solitudeWith Brecht, Benn, Bobrowski and Celan, Peter Huchel is one of a handful of essential post war poets in the German language. A precise observer of natural phenomena, Huchel is above all a realist whose metaphors take us deep into the social and historical landscape, into zones of devastation and despair, the zero hour of isolation. His world is devoid of illusion or sentimentality; there is no redemption, at most an exactitude that is itself a