Suddenly there's a room missing in the house. Just yesterday there was a door, now it's gone. A path opens through the forest, which fades as you enter. Disappearance, absence, these are now integral to everything you do: watching the clouds, laying the table for dinner. In these intensely intimate explorations of personal loss, Jordi Doce takes us on a journey in which poetry is both a means and an end, a way of seeking new harmony with a painfully altered world, and a testament of enduring love.

Shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Prize.

About the Author

Jordi Doce is a Spanish writer who has published several volumes of poetry, as well as essays, diaries and translations.

He has translated numerous English language poets into Spanish, including T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, W.B. Yeats and Anne Carson.

His most recent collection in English is Master of Distances (Shearsman, 2023) translated by Terence Dooley.

Reviews
'Jordi Doce is one of the three or four living European poets whose work I most treasure. He brings all his faculties to the rich task of being; his voice inhabits the names, not just with wonder, but with new possibilities; he is a companion, not a guide, always present with us, never merely pointing what he thinks might be the way.'
John Burnside


Awards
Short-listed for Michael Marks Poetry Prize 2024.



Book Information
ISBN 9781915968067
Author Jordi Doce
Format Paperback
Page Count 28
Imprint Dare-Gale Press
Publisher Dare-Gale Press