Somnia by Maria Stadnicka Jonathan Reeder a million silver spiders play

a million silver spiders play dead

Irish-English bilingual edition

 Observer

precise and vividly memorable – listening to the ‘machine of spring/with all your levers thrown to max’

Somnia by Maria Stadnicka Jonathan Reeder a million silver spiders playA chisel, a hammer, a lyre; reportage, intimate feelings, quips and criticisms. Maria Stadnickas poems are clusters of consciousness, graphic, material images of our world. Her language assaults, bends, cajoles, thrusts a saber into the darkness of the very language she employs to explore death, degradation, the non recognition of the human individual, war, urban violence, in short, the all too present context of our daily lives. [] What concerns