This is a joyous poem. It is the perfect end to the weekend; exercise and leisure; social but speechless. A neverending from which we can just walk away, with the half-shrug of a Larkinesque final bonus rhyme that is lazy and comfortable and true. *** The action that feels good feels like danc...

Besides her work as a translator, Sasha Dugdale is a playwright, and editor of Modern Poetry in Translation; her three books of verse, Notebook (2003), The Estate (2007) and Red House (2011) are all published by Carcanet. Dugdale was born in Sussex, not far from her current home. Travelling to meet ...