‘What remains / are the poems, the songs / that mortality sings': Griffin Poetry Prize winning poems
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An excerpt from Seagull Books' 'Psyche Running: Selected Poems, 2005–2022', by Durs Grünbein, translated from the German by Karen Leeder.
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