Velkom To Inklandt Av Sophie Herxheimer

<p><b><i>The Sunday Times </i>Poetry Book of the Year 2017</b><br><br><b><i>Velkom to Inklandt</i> is a collection of poems in which Sophie Herxheimer brings to life the voice of her German Jewish <i>Grent Muzzer</i> Liesel, whose somewhat abrasive but eminently humane <i>perspektiff</i> she''s been unable to forget.</b><br><br>Liesel came to live in Britain in 1938, with her young family. Her husband was one of many scientists saved by the speedily set up Council for Academic Refugees.<br><br>Playing on the difficulties of the English <i>lenkvitch</i> and <i>vokebulerry</i>, the poems tell of an immigrant''s attempts to fit in and make her home in a new country at war with her own.<br><br>This fascinating sequence addresses alienation, survival, friendship, marriage, motherhood and loss against a backdrop of a London which has almost disappeared but at the same time remains <i>straynchly</i> familiar.</p>