Dark Night by John of the Cross, translated by Martha Sprackland
Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Summer 2026 Rachel McCarthy with the addition of five

with the addition of five later collections published by Bloodaxe

In its embrace of both the political and the metaphysical

A revelatory volume of two of the twentieth century's great poetic innovators

And She Was demands our attention

tragically humanistic

Dark Night by John of the Cross, translated by Martha Sprackland <br><b>Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Summer 2026</b> Rachel McCarthy with the addition of fivePublished 21 May 2026 O living flame of love, how tenderly you scorch me The poetry of the sixteenth century Spanish mystic, John of the Cross, has inspired and consoled for hundreds of years, influencing writers from James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill to T. S. Eliot and Mary Oppen. This new edition of his essential works, in a sensitive and luminous translation by Martha Sprackland, gathers John of the Crosss complete poems and a selection