For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...
Daniel Galera is a Brazilian writer, translator and editor, and one of the authors on Granta's The Best of Young Brazilian Authors list. His novel, Blood-Drenched Beardwas published by Hamish Hamilton in May. This piece was originally featured in Serrote, a Brazilian literary magazine, in 2010.
Always got caught out by their shadows: Stuck to their soles like monkeys on trapezes, Cellophane fortune tellers curling on palms, Squashed black jelly...
Sources: Achate, Bilder im Stein / Josef Arnoth, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel Buchverlag, Bild der Wissenschaft 12, Dezember 1971, DVA StuttgartBasler Zeitung, Birkhäuser...
