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In vivid prose filled with texture, colour and sound, Wioletta Greg describes an ordinary adult world encroaching on a child’s extraordinary universe. Translated by Eliza Marciniak.
Wioletta Greg is the author of six volumes of poetry and a novella, Swallowing Mercury.
Her poetry collection, Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance, was shortlisted for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. She was born in Kozieglowy, Poland in February 1974. She lives in Essex.