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
Sprackland's ear is particularly alive to movement and music ... the result is a St John of the Cross who feels neither embalmed nor modernised, but newly legible. This translation doesn't simply carry the poems ...
Leo Boix, Poetry Book Society Bulletin