Empires and Holy Lands: Poems 1976–2000 (Salt Modern Poets) - Softcover

Michael Hulse is an award-winning poet. In ‘Empires and Holy Lands’, his German literary interests lead his to consider the disjuncture between European high culture and the barbarism of the Shoah. “On Location” has the Shoah continuing to resonate in a post-modern present through movies... There are witty poems here – Michelangelo’s statue of Moses seen as “a patriarchal bully-boy./ Mister universal Law”... Clearly there is room for the demonic in this sophisticated, highly enjoyable collection. (Peter Lawson Jewish Chronicle – The Weekly Review)

Michael Hulse, born 1955, is one of the most distinguished poets of his generation, and an acclaimed translator and editor. This selection of a quarter century’s work draws on all his books and pamphlets to date and includes sixteen new and uncollected poems.