Schist by Karen Smith The Language of Eldorado Davis has also established himself

Davis has also established himself as ‘the leading translator of Persian literature in our time’ (Washington Post) and this volume includes a selection of his celebrated translations

and Jacko Jacobus (a dub reggae version of the Biblical story of Jacob and Esau

- SJ Fowler

“Another element integral to these externalised reflections of the self is chance

Publication coincides with his 80th birthday and with the 40th anniversary of the publication of Bloodaxe’s first title

Schist by Karen Smith The Language of Eldorado Davis has also established himselfSchist is the lovechild of emotion and geology, the product of a childhood with a schizophrenic mother and an anorexic father on a council estate in Croydon. These poems travel to where the land gives way to the sea and family stability is eroded by illness and death.