John of the Cross
Praise for Dark Night
Sprackland’s new translation is both provocative and timely … In her consciously poeticising yet conscientious versions, the works themselves retain all the strangeness and burn that attracted TS Eliot and Salvad ...
Fiona Sampson, Guardian
To read St John of the Cross is to enter a poetry of extremity: sensuous, nocturnal, and charged with biblical imagery, yet accompanied by prose commentaries so exacting that they verge on the scholastic. It is p ...
Leo Boix, Poetry Book Society Bulletin