Burning Bones

Meabe has participated in many international events including the Dublin Festival Writers (2003), XXI Festival of Vjlenica. Literary Festival, Edinburgh Book Festival, Reading Month Festival, International Day of Languages, Hay Festival Arequipa, IBVA Days and Brussels Transpoesie.

This title is the second part of Miren Agur Meabe's triptych. In 2020 she published her fifth poetry collection, Nola gorde errautsa kolkoan (Holding Ashes Close to the Heart) - which is the final part of the triptych. It won the 2021 Spanish National Poetry Award.Expertly translated into English by Amaia Gabantxo - arguably the most prestigious contemporary Basque to English translator - Hezurren Erretura [Burning Bones] is a companion piece to Miren Agur Meabe's A Glass Eye, a collection of short stories that complement the universe of Meabe's novel about absence as an engine for creation, about what we make out of the things we lose--her eye, in the author's case, or love, or the innocence of youth. Miren Agur Meabe is one of Basque literature’s leading contemporary writers and the winner of several national awards. She is the only writer to win Spain’s national poetry prize in the Basque language. In a series of short poetic narratives Burning Bones finds the writer on a remarkable journey of imagination, discovery and emotion. From a flooded river stranding a dolphin on a sandbank to a sailor afraid to venture onto land while a first kiss is cut tragically short Meabe plays with the expectations and form of stories while offering a rhapsody of reflection and reinvention.