Released 31st October, 2024 // 42 pages // 978-1-916938-54-0 // RRP: £9.99
 
Mind’s Eye: Notelets & Dialogues in Tribute to Paul Celan by Carol Rumens is a profound exploration of memory, language, and trauma. In this compelling collection, Rumens engages in a dialogue with the life and work of the poet Paul Celan, whose poetry was deeply influenced by his experiences during the Holocaust and his struggle with mental illness. Through poems that range from intimate 'notelets' to imagined conversations between Celan and his unfinished work, Rumens offers a tribute that reflects on the fragility of life, the endurance of art, and the complexities of survival. This collection is an homage to one of the 20th century’s most enigmatic poets, bringing new perspectives on grief, displacement, and the transformative power of words.  
 
ABOUT Carol Rumens:
Carol Rumens is an ex-Convent-Grammar-School South Londoner. Having ditched a Philosophy Single Hons. BA for its failure to reveal the Meaning of Life, she earned a PG Dip. in Writing for the Stage. Her plays have been performed at Newcastle’s Gulbenkian Studio and London’s Soho Poly. Bezdelki: Small Things (2018) received a Michael Marks Best Pamphlet Award, and Star Whisper (1983) was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Award. Rumens now lives in North Wales, where she’s a professor emerita of Creative Writing at Bangor University and writes more-or-less full-time.