Julia Dale was born in the UK in 1947. She studied literature at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and linguistics at SOAS in London. Her poetry has appeared in various publications including The Shop and White Adder Press, and she has translated from Bengali (Songs by Tagore), Spanish and Middle English (Pearl).
In this first Selection of Clementina Arderiu’s work to be published in English, we encounter a Catalan poet who is both classic and startlingly modern.