A new sequence of poems from Ágnes Lehóczky with a short poem by Denise Riley written by way of introduction. “Enter this book as into a pool: the waters are deep, revivifying, full of wonders, transformations, swirls of wild speculation, matter for dreaming and antimatter for spooky epitaph-emptinesses. Risk immersion, if you dare, in wells of language and of the heart. Enter the pool of language, memory, strange encounter, meet Celan, Sebald, Derrida, Bosch, Attila József, Vasari, and hosts of other artists of water and flows of mind. Meet your watery other, the swimmer within. And enjoy, with the same inky blocks on the page, a wonderful cultural history of the swimming pool, a liquid space for Ágnes Lehóczky’s exploration of her times, her encounters, her languages, in England, in Budapest, in the Europe of the spirit so soon to be abandoned.” — Adam Piette