New and Selected Sorrows Alan Morrison especially among those whose lives

especially among those whose lives are easily overlooked and undervalued – many of these poems draw on her experiences working with the elderly

translated by Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese

a voice resonant with genuine passion

a heap of felled almonds

New and Selected Sorrows Alan Morrison especially among those whose livesNew and Selected Sorrows draws on Goran Simis earlier collections, From Sarajevo with Sorrow, Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman and Immigrant Blues, together with many new poems published in English for the first time. It is a book about passports and borders, rats and wolves, soldiers and ghosts. It is a record of the realities and the unrealities of life in the Balkans, narrated by an ordinary man with ears of ordinary silk, whose sees the face of