Igor Klikovac is a poet whose work is as shaped by his Sarajevo roots as by his travels: the poems, often up in the air, between places, among the clouds that increasingly pass over European nations, are brilliantly observed, ironic, densely material, then spaciously open to what he misses and remembers and can do justice to.

Translated by John McAuliffe and Igor Klikovac, the selection for this pamphlet is from Igor’s third book of poetry, Stockholm Syndrome.