Gowanus Atropolis Michael Scammell making us keep our distance

making us keep our distance wherever we go

and a TRAVELLING TALE from writer and translator Waiel Ashry in the USA Going to Williamsburg

[Chris Searle's] life is a challenge to all those repressive mind manacles imposed by the Conservatives in the 1980s

engaging and stimulating

published in English translation for the first time

Gowanus Atropolis Michael Scammell making us keep our distanceGowanus atropolis is an ecopoetical exploration of the Gowanus canal in Brooklyn, a recently designated superfund site that was once a fertile fishing ground for the Canarsie Native American tribe. The poems grapple with reconciling the toxicity of the titular Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn and the east river in Manahatta with the poets search for the pastoral in New York City. A queer elegy for when language might have been prior to thought, where the