Between Fish Scales The Lady of Elche we encounter surrender and revelation

we encounter surrender and revelation throughout

and the documentary losses of revolutions in Chronicles of the Hostile Sun

voor iedereen die de liefde wil vieren en mateloos wil verlagen'

'The most moving lines literature has achieved' - Jorge Luis Borges

naar de harmonie der scheuren

Between Fish Scales The Lady of Elche we encounter surrender and revelationLeire Bilbao (trans. Joana Urtasun) In her English language debut, Basque poet Leire Bilbao gives us a visceral view of motherhood, worklife, and plural desire in a maritime landscape, both hyper real and eerily anthropomorphic. Carrying the melodies of her early, bardic work as a bertsolari (singer of improvised Basque verse), and a lived knowledge of local fishing traditions, Bilbao weaves a net of unfamiliar language that trawls the depths of