About the Author

W.G. Sebald is one of very few German writers of the last few decades to have attracted both a broad readership in the UK and an international following of journalists and scholars alike. He has proved a huge inspiration not just to younger writers but also to artists and photographers fascinated by the use of imagery and images in his work. His books include Austerlitz, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn and After Nature.

Iain Galbraith is a widely published translator of German into English. He won the John Dryden Prize for Literary Translation in 2004.

Reviews

Marvellously warm, exciting and compassionate
*Andrew Motion*

Astonishing writing. A true poet at work
*Evening Standard*

When you read Sebald you are transported to another realm. Reading him is a truly sublime experience
*Literary Review*

Sebald reminds me of the humanist tradition of Günter Grass or Heinrich Böll, company he unquestioningly belongs to as poet, essayist and prose writer, one of the greatest artists of our time
*Irish Times*

The poems . . . show a humane and complex intelligence at work and deserve a place next to Sebald's prose output
*New Statesman*