Whales and Whales: Baleas e BaleasThe first English translation of one of the most pivotal collections in contemporary Galician poetry, Whales and Whales navigates the urgent, playful, shapeshifting journey of a young woman affirming her place in the world. Caught between a father toiling far away in the icy waters of the Atlantic, and a mother who works in a canning factory, Luisa Castros daughter of the sea casts her voice from her home on the North Galician coast. Throwing the

Blurring genre and form

questioning how far we’ve really progressed

Kent showcases a working class poetics that aims to present both a reality of experience and a subversion of expectations

a hero’s journey

get to see the world through his eyes and are greatly enriched by the experience

legend and anecdote flow together

these tales take to task the happy endings we have been sold

Her first novel

the questions that still remain unanswered and the problems that remain unsolved

a balm and a cause for celebration

Earl Lovelace’s first and politically most explicit novel

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