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Reminiscent of the sound of Paul Celan and Dylan Thomas, Seiler evokes an East German community left ecologically and emotionally devastated in the Soviet era
An epoch-defining work
For readers of Maria Stepanova, Paul Celan, Charles Simic, Adam Zagajewski and Dylan Thomas
English edition by And Other Stories: 2023 Poetry Book Society Translation Choice
»Pitch & Glint resists description but compels shock, admiration and envy. It has something of the amphibrachic chant of early Celan, jolie-laide language, lower case, ampersands, a harsh and physical sampling of a childhood in a working landscape (the uranium mines) in the last years of the GDR.« Michael Hofmann
»Pitch & Glint was an event, because all of us who still believe poetry can do something, felt that something was being given voice by this poet, something that would otherwise have been hopelessly lost.« Michael Krüger
»Epoch-making.« Angelika Overath, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»Seiler's poems are original. They have body and a rhythm. They breathe dust and dirt, the desolation in minds and homes, the collapse and change, but their form is so strong that something new arises.« Ursula Krechel, Der Tagesspiegel
»Here the contemporary appears with archaic force.« Helmut Böttiger, Frankfurter Rundschau
»Seiler is not aiming at reportage, not a documentary recording of places and landscapes. He is after the images with which they are internalised: how they get into people's bones. [...] Distrustful of fixed rhyming schemes, he throws his lines like garlands over the sentence structures, playing with internal rhyme and alliteration, closer to Dylan Thomas than Peter Huchel. This slim, wonderful book is like a seashell: a part of Germany is enclosed in it, in a rush of sound.« Lothar Müller, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»Seiler's art is an inbetween one. Pitch & Glint remains a secret until you find a way in, reading it as an evocation and as a challenge to move in echoing sounds.« Martin Ahrends, Die Zeit
»Seiler has masterful command of a subtle style, both skittish and firm in its diction and movement, tense and tensile in its branching extensions and jittery vertiginous drops. One could call it elliptical, but it’s more a kind of binocular vision, with one lens ground for cosmic focus and the other for a microscope. The voicing of such vision shifts from ecstatic to abject; the idiom is constantly sliding, smearing, merging to connect phenomena and feeling in work that opens a new approach in the ecological awareness currently driving poetry on both sides of the Atlantic. Seiler has effectively rewired the lyric for the twenty-first century, tuning the dial of the poetic to its lower frequencies, where the signal can pass through walls.« Joshua Weiner, Poetry magazine
»Pitch & Glint resists description but compels shock, admiration and envy. It has something of the amphibrachic chant of early Celan, jolie-laide language, lower case, ampersands, a harsh and physical sampling of a childhood in a working landscape (the uranium mines) in the...
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Lutz Seiler receives Georg Büchner Prize 2023
The German Academy for Language and Literature has awarded the Georg Büchner Prize 2023 to Lutz Seiler.DISCOVER
Lutz Seiler receives Georg Büchner Prize 2023
The German Academy for Language and Literature has awarded the Georg Büchner Prize 2023 to Lutz Seiler.Persons
Lutz Seiler
Lutz Seiler was born in Gera, Thuringia, in 1963 and today lives in Wilhelmshorst near Berlin and in Stockholm. He underwent training as a mason and a carpenter and completed his studies in 1990. Since 1997, he has been the literary director and custodian of the Peter Huchel Museum. He was writer-in-residence at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles and at the German Academy in Rome. His many prizes include the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, the Bremen Prize for Literature, the Fontane Prize, the Uwe Johnson Prize, and most recently the Georg Büchner Prize.
Lutz Seiler was born in Gera, Thuringia, in 1963 and today lives in Wilhelmshorst near Berlin and in Stockholm. He underwent training as a mason...
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script for blind giants
Sweden (Edda)

Star 111
»November 1989. The Berlin Wall has just fallen when the East German couple Inge und Walter, following a secret dream they’ve harboured all their lives, set out for life in the West....
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in field latin
English world rights (Seagull), Italy (selection, Del Vecchio), Sweden (selection, Faethon)

The Time-Balance
Catalan Rights (selection, Club Editor), Arabic world rights (Al'Asreya), France (Verdier), Italy (Del Vecchio Editore)

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In Case of Loss
»In Case of Loss gathers the best of Lutz Seiler’s non-fiction from last twenty-five years, revealing his essays to be different to, but on a par with, his fiction and poetry....
English world rights (And Other Stories), Italy (selection, Del Vecchio)

forty kilometres of night
Lutz Seiler‘s poems, created between 2000 and 2003, undertake a journey through forty kilometres of night, they lead out of the native landscape, destroyed by uranium mining, depicted in pech...
English world rights (And Other Stories)