Songs of Cifar and the Sweet Sea by Pablo Antonio Cuadra, trans. by Adam Feinstein Daljit Nagra One of his tutelary spirits

One of his tutelary spirits is the great Leopardi

Challis adds new energy to the poetry of history

alongside fellow species

In pottery

Songs of Cifar and the Sweet Sea by Pablo Antonio Cuadra, trans. by Adam Feinstein Daljit Nagra One of his tutelary spiritsPablo Antonio Cuadra (19122002) was one of Nicaragua's great 20th century poets. In this lyrical epic, the inevitable Homeric background for the tale of wandering sailor underpins the contemporary Nicaraguan reality of The Great Lake (Lake Nicaragua the "sweet sea" of the title), rather than the Aegean. The language is deceptively colloquial, plain even, as befits the real people of his narrative, but he reveals the richness of life on the Lake and