Every Night I Send You Flowers (Irish Edition)

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by Gabriel Rosenstock

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Every Night I Send You Flowers is a bilingual book of ekphrastic tanka, in Irish and English, in response to the beautiful artworks of Odilon Redon. "Gabriel Rosenstock is one of the most original, untypical and inventive writers/thinkers/poets in the world." World Haiku Review "Rosenstock's tanka paint magical worlds before the reader, each written in a musical language rich in philosophical and emotional depth." Iliyana Stoyanova, Blithe Spirit, Journal of the British Haiku Society, Vol. 35, No.3 "There is no doubt that Gabriel Rosenstock is a creator of world literature." Lesa Ní Mhunghaile "It is well worth spending time in the Rosenstock Gallery." Paul Murray, Report Gabriel Rosenstock (born September 29, 1949) is an Irish poet, tankaist and haikuist who primarily works in the Irish language. A member of Aosdána and Poets of the Planet, he has authored and translated over 400 books, spanning poetry, prose, drama, and children's literature. While he is known for his extensive work in poetry, he has also made significant contributions to haiku, tanka, and literary translation. His translations bring international voices into Irish, covering a wide range of poets such as Ko Un, Seamus Heaney, Rabindranath Tagore, and Muhammad Iqbal, as well as playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and Max Frisch. He has also transcreated song lyrics from various artists such as Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell into Irish for the IMRAM litfest. His children's book Haiku Más É Do Thoil É! received the Children's Books Judges' Special Prize in 2015 and he was the recipient of the Irish Children's Annual Books Award 2023 for revolutionising children's poetry. He also has free titles for young readers on FreeKidsBooks.His multicultural blog has been running since 2012: https: //roghaghabriel.blogspot.com/

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