There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die - Tove Ditlevsen documenta the personalising touch of plants

the personalising touch of plants in pots

Even more than eighty years after the death of the founder of the modern state

delivered in Damion Searls’s distinctive translation

a personal essay by the artist

There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die - Tove Ditlevsen documenta the personalising touch of plantsWhile Tove Ditlevsen is now famous around the world as an extraordinary prose writer, in Denmark she has also long been celebrated as a poet. She published her first collection in her early twenties, and continued writing and publishing poetry until the end of her life. This new selection offers English readers a chance to explore her brilliant, surprising verse across nearly four decades of writing. In this playful, mournful, witty collection, little