The Mystical Rose. Selected Poems by Adélia Prado (Bloodaxe Books) translated by Ellen Doré Watson Gillian Allnutt In her beautifully measured lines

In her beautifully measured lines she takes us to the edge of the familar

but using disguise to tell hidden stories of emotion and pain

She has opened up for him her own soul-landscape with its peculiar shapes and intense colours

precise quality of their lyricism’ (Sasha Dugdale)

The Mystical Rose. Selected Poems by Adélia Prado (Bloodaxe Books) translated by Ellen Doré Watson Gillian Allnutt In her beautifully measured linesShortlisted for the 2015 Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize Adlia Prado was discovered when she was nearly 40 by Brazils foremost modern poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, who was astonished to read her phenomenal poems, launching her literary career with his announcement that St Francis was dictating verses to a housewife in the provincial backwater of Minas Gerais. Psychiatrists in droves made the pilgrimage to Divinpolis to delve into the