Footprints

In poems that took years and sometimes decades to reach a final version, he worked within a limited set of themes and images high mountains, gloomy lakes, sinister boats, nocturnal ghosts, reflected clouds, dark woods, golden sunsets, lightning, harvesting, lost lovers to present his own symbolic world with a vividness and intensity that few poets can match. In these sensitive and accurate versions by acclaimed translator Anthony Mortimer, Meyers achievement is available to anglophone readers for the first time.