Jan Wagner 
Self Portrait With A Swarm of Bees 

Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees combines the poet’s unerring instinct for the surprising perspective on commonplace objects or events with a mischievous delight in the detail of the absurd. Wagner is a vigilant, yet playful, chronicler of the quotidian, his meticulous handling of image and sound forging a worldly, almost luminous palpability.

About the author

Iain Galbraith lived in Scotland for much of his life before moving to Germany, where he still lives. He has edited five poetry anthologies and is highly respected as a translator of both literary works and poems, for which he has won multiple awards, such as the John Dryden Translation Prize in 2004, the Stephen Spender Prize for Translation in 2014 and the Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize in 2015. His own poetry has been featured in publications such as The Edinburgh Review and The Times Literary Supplement. He has translated works both to and from English, and has conducted research and lectures on poetry at the University of Edinburgh and the University of the Applied Arts in Vienna, respectively.