Cosmic Sadness by Jean Portante, translated by Zoe Skoulding tayi tibble Flanagan wrote for The Times

Flanagan wrote for The Times

moves between the two

the ideas of truth and justice

they have been widely published in a range of anthologies and journals including Butcher's Dog and the Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry

It’s invigorating and makes me proud of being human’ – Jane Campion

Cosmic Sadness by Jean Portante, translated by Zoe Skoulding tayi tibble Flanagan wrote for The TimesCosmic Sadness is a glittering, grief struck astronomy of the everyday, in which kitchens, scaffolding, train stations and gardens tilt slowly into interstellar space. In Jean Portante's long, linked sequences, memory and matter are always in motion: roses drift above language, migratory birds arrive with their beaks nailed shut, drawers open on months, planets and old parents, while the sky behaves like a flooded cellar or a cracked cinema screen.