The Mystical Rose. Selected Poems by Adélia Prado (Bloodaxe Books) translated by Ellen Doré Watson Julia Bird Poetry audiences went from stadium

Poetry audiences went from stadium size to coffee house size

but profound moments of epiphany

” Robert Peake

especially her own daughters

The Mystical Rose. Selected Poems by Adélia Prado (Bloodaxe Books) translated by Ellen Doré Watson Julia Bird Poetry audiences went from stadiumShortlisted for the 2015 Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize Adlia Prado was discovered when she was nearly 40 by Brazils foremost modern poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, who was astonished to read her phenomenal poems, launching her literary career with his announcement that St Francis was dictating verses to a housewife in the provincial backwater of Minas Gerais. Psychiatrists in droves made the pilgrimage to Divinpolis to delve into the