The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes by Lieke Marsman, trans. Sophie Collins
PBS Summer Translation Choice 2019 Hannah Lowe ' – Peter Abbs

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Lines in the Sky

and moving new collection

written in language asked to be beautiful

poems that appropriate the mood and tone of Sense and Sensibility

The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes by Lieke Marsman, trans. Sophie Collins <br><b>PBS Summer Translation Choice 2019</b> Hannah Lowe ' – Peter AbbsIn The Cancer Journals Audre Lorde wrote, I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilise into yet another silence, not to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and examined. Founded on this same principle, The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes was written in the three months following Dutch writer Lieke Marsmans cancer diagnosis. A series of short poems anchored by an essay that