Salamander Sun and other poems by Pia Tafdrup, translated by David McDuff Stuart Maconie written in the hours before

written in the hours before his execution

It is occupied

we can read the language of the world

humanity and wit

’ And Archibald MacLeish wrote

Salamander Sun and other poems by Pia Tafdrup, translated by David McDuff Stuart Maconie written in the hours beforePia Tafdrup is one of Denmarks leading poets. She has received the Nordic Literature Prize Scandinavias most prestigious literary award and the Swedish Academys Nordic Prize. This new translation of her work combines two recent collections, The Migrant Birds Compass and Salamander Sun, which comprise the third and fourth parts of a quartet written over ten years: the first two parts are The Whales in Paris and Tarkovsky's Horses (published in English