Ventriloquise by Ned Denny Barbican Press By turns playful

By turns playful

will bring a mouse it hascaught and lay it at your

Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão

and led to his work being largely ignored by the Bundan (the literary establishment) and misunderstood for half a century

Translated by Lola Rogers

Ventriloquise by Ned Denny Barbican Press By turns playfulNed Denny's startling new collection recalls what Heidegger says in his essay on Hoelderlin about the poet, of all mortals, reaching most deeply into the abyss. In what does this abyss, the "world's night," consist? In the fact that the gods have departed, and in the rootless, heaven proof and now worldwide technocracy forged in their absence. Yet the poet is also the one who sees, in that night, the lost gods' traces, and there are glimpses here