The Hauntings Anna Robinson translated by Peter Clark and

translated by Peter Clark and Sarah Maguire

Ted Hughes

despair heard above the hysterical gossip of the insatiable gulls

hacked computers and digital avatars

first tear apart and then reassemble with all the missing

The Hauntings Anna Robinson translated by Peter Clark andMany lives and ideas shape us and our environment. Some forge hope, some threaten our very being, some point to redemption for those who come after. In a love that might sustain us, they can be a manifested present; in their passing, a living prompt to be better. Such embodiments haunt this poetry collection where ghosts of lives that reflect the white light of the world rest alongside ghosts of other relationships. These hauntings can inspire us to