"In this collection Sabine Wichert subtly roots her adopted town of Belfast into her own background: her inheritance of "The burning cities of Europe". The poems span a lifetime of family, friends, and her own girlhood formed by the turmoil of 20th Century Europe. The image of rootedness is also present in her relationship to the Irish countryside: "Some to rescue only these roots". This colletion is long overdue. Ms Wichert...
"In this collection Sabine Wichert subtly roots her adopted town of Belfast into her own background: her inheritance of "The burning cities of Europe". The poems span a lifetime of family, friends, and her own girlhood formed by the turmoil of 20th Century Europe. The image of rootedness is also present in her relationship to the Irish countryside: "Some to rescue only these roots". This colletion is long overdue. Ms Wichert has been published extensively in journals over a number of years, and it is a boon that a talent of such width and imagination should at last reach a wider audience."
Leland Bardwell
Sabine Wichert was born in
Graudenz, West Prussia (now Grudziadz, Poland) and grew up and was
educated in West Germany. She has been teaching history at Queen's
University, Belfast since 1971 and has a special interest in the visual
arts. She was a member of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland from the
mid-1980s to 1994 and is a member of the Board of Annaghmakerrig
appointed by both Arts Councils in Ireland.
