Significant Other by Isabel Galleymore Eileen R Tabios For more than five decades

For more than five decades Anthony Rudolf has been active as translator

breathtaking inventiveness and generosity of vision place her among Europe’s leading poets

an original piece of seeing - but the true impact of this book is felt when the sequence is read in order because this book does not just record the passage of a river but the passage of a life lived honestly and fully

Holly Magill

We listen to the whirring minds of machines

Significant Other by Isabel Galleymore Eileen R Tabios For more than five decadesIn her first book of poems, Isabel Galleymore takes a sustained look at the 'eight million differently constructed hearts' of species currently said to inhabit the earth. These are part of the significant other of her title; so too are the intimacies loving, fraught, stalked by loss and extinction that make up a life. The habit of foisting human agendas on nonhuman worlds is challenged. Must we still describe willows as weeping? In the twenty first