Landscape with Mines by Anna Bowles poetry in translation ‘This traffic between the everyday

‘This traffic between the everyday and mortality requires a perfect control of tone

fed by layers of nutrient-rich peat and supporting scores of species

in the scrabbling breath of pretending otherwise

it is nevertheless offered up and renewed throughout this stunning and ambitious collection

and unflinching

Landscape with Mines by Anna Bowles poetry in translation ‘This traffic between the everydayAnna Bowles, a British humanitarian volunteer, has made six visits to Ukraine since Russia's full scale invasion in February 2022. In Landscape with Mines, her first pamphlet, she draws the reader into the daily struggles of those resisting existential threat or merely hoping to survive it. Her poems, in vivid and dramatic language, bear timely and compassionate witness to pain and courage under extreme circumstances. 'Few in the West pay attention to