Book record
The Uplands Book of the Courel
Uxío Novoneyra
Translated from Galician by Erin Mouré
The Uplands Book of the Courel, by Uxío Novoneyra, is a poetry collection from Spain, translated by Erin Mouré, published by Veliz Books. It is a Galician collection rooted in upland landscape, language, and the particular presence of place. Novoneyra's book matters because it lets geography speak as more than setting; the Courel becomes breath, memory, and local music carried into English. I would read this first for the pressure of image and cadence rather than as a puzzle waiting for its correct answer. The useful description for a book like this should give the reader a door, not a lecture: enough context to orient the shelf, then enough mystery to let the poems keep their own weather. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Spain. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local speech, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.
- Publisher
- Veliz Books
- Language
- Galician
- Country
- Spain