Granny’s Interpreter Adam Strickson Chip Rossetti

Chip Rossetti

translated by Kapka Kassabova

The poems in The Middleman refuse to take sides

The Night Watchmen and the Bagthorpe saga series

a foldaway circus

Granny’s Interpreter Adam Strickson Chip RossettiGrannys Interpreter includes new and used, published and unpublished poems which wheel around home, belonging and memory on a sliding scale between tenderness and satire and between bereavement and celebration. Many of them have been coloured by the decades in which Ian Watson has lived an emotional tug of war in Germany: between mother and mother in law tongue, between Irish parents and their German grandchildren. They are the chronicle of a