[…] fizzes with pain, anger and the need to reshape trauma through words. The poems explore changing places, languages, identities. Yet the communality of human experience is often returned to. ‘Each a speck/on a line threading us all together.’

Jane Laugharne, Greenscapes and other poems

Sometimes playful, always precise, here are pellucidly clear poems that range widely, from the weigtlessness of water to the horror of Rwanda, from domestic travails to the darkness of Gaza, consistently searchlighting the world.

Jon Gower

In her book, Sophie Buchaillard examines what it means to be in exile, ‘in translation, always’ as mother, daughter, partner. With precision of paintbrush, sharpie, rock, she makes her marks, cracks open wounds unflinchingly before painting over them. Her work is as fierce as it is gentle. Although she holds violators to account, she also extends to them patience; love as antidote. These poems are the account of a resilient woman gathering and mapping her self so she may do this for her child and all who are rendered Other, speaking them home, whispering, ‘I see you’. These powerful poems urge us to do the same.

clare e. potter, author of Healing the Pack