The Old King in his Exile Rob McLellan and poetry as a political

and poetry as a political paradigm

Also included are translations by Richard Begbie and Kirsten Lodge

"His wry wit and verbal acrobatics

is the author of The Pressed Melodeon: Essays on Modern Irish Writing (Story Line Press

His published translations include To The Silenced ñ Selected Poems of Georg Trakl (2005) and the first English translation of Journeys

The Old King in his Exile Rob McLellan and poetry as a politicalWhat makes us who we are? Arno Geigers father was never an easy man to know and when he developed Alzheimers, Arno realised he was not going to ask for help. As my father can no longer cross the bridge into my world, I have to go over to his. So Arno sets out on a journey to get to know him at last. Born in 1926 in the Austrian Alps, into a farming family who had an orchard, kept three cows, and made schnapps in the cellar, his father was conscripted