Mer de Glace
Małgorzata Lebda author Mira Rosenthal translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publishing:21st May '26
£9.89 was £10.99
This title is due to be published on 21st May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
In 2021, Małgorzata Lebda ran the entire length of the longest river in Poland, the Vistula, from its source in the Beskid Mountains to its mouth at the Baltic Sea. She set out to run as a poet, not as an athlete, to use the rhythms of her own body as a means of understanding and connecting to the rhythms of the river’s body of water, under threat of environmental ruin. Her collection Mer de Glace, which won the Szymborska Prize, is the culmination of her remarkable journey, and a profound meditation on the porosity, reactivity and receptivity of both the body and the natural world, and of their influences on one another.
‘Life and death are beautifully balanced in Lebda’s lyrical novel.’
— Olga Tokarczuk, author of The Empusium (praise for Voracious)
‘A dark, gorgeous and haunting book about bodies, attention and care’
— Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall (praise for Voracious)
‘Voracious is a visionary account of the lacework of interrelationships between people and the earth. It has a hallucinatory quality – passionate, disturbing, memorable – like a dream sent to us by a druid. Antonia Lloyd-Jones has rendered this dream in a breathtaking English translation that seethes and flickers like the scenes it depicts.’
— Sasha Dugdale, author of The Strongbox (praise for Voracious)
‘Voracious is gorgeous, vivid, timeless, a novel about a small place and a small family as a microcosm of the human family and the whole world at this particular moment in time.’
— Sara Baume, author of Handiwork (praise for Voracious)
- Winner of Wisława Szymborska Poetry Award 2022 (Poland)
ISBN: 9781804272138
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
52 pages