'Pitch & Glint resists description but compels shock, admiration and envy. It has something of the amphibrachic chant of early Celan, jolie-laide language, lower case, ampersands, a harsh and physical sampling of a childhood in a working landscape (the uranium mines) in the last years of the GDR.' Michael Hofmann ---- 'Seiler's poems are immersive, unpredictable journeys into a past that is both irrecoverably lost and hauntingly present. They are at once soundscapes and dream-narratives, their language propulsive and furious and broken.' Patrick McGuinness ---- 'Pitch & Glint unfurls against the backdrop of late-twentieth-century East Germany, a landscape strewn with spoilheaps, disappeared villages, snow, oil and phlegm. Wandering over this uncertain terrain, Seiler meditates hauntingly on the disembodied lives emerging from its midst - and Tobler's stark, elegant translations do a fine job of capturing the essential interplay of muscularity and vaporousness at its heart. This is an exquisite, humane, deliciously shadowy verse music - a real-world Stalker with line-breaks. ' Alex Niven ---- 'Pitch & Glint was an event, because all of us who still believe poetry can do something, felt that something was being given voice by this poet, something that would otherwise have been hopelessly lost.' Michael Kruger ---- 'Seiler has effectively rewired the lyric for the twenty-first century.' Joshua Weiner, Poetry ---- 'Epoch-making.' Angelika Overath, Neue Zurcher Zeitung ---- 'Seiler's poems are original. They have body and a rhythm. They breathe dust and dirt, the desolation in minds and homes, the collapse and change, but their form is so strong that something new arises.' Ursula Krechel, Der Tagesspiegel ---- 'Here the contemporary appears with archaic force.' Helmut Boettiger, Frankfurter Rundschau ---- 'Seiler is not aiming at reportage, not a documentary recording of places and landscapes. He is after the images with which they are internalised: how they get into people's bones. [...] Distrustful of fixed rhyming schemes, he throws his lines like garlands over the sentence structures, playing with internal rhyme and alliteration, closer to Dylan Thomas than Peter Huchel. This slim, wonderful book is like a seashell: a part of Germany is enclosed in it, in a rush of sound.' Lothar Muller, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ---- 'Seiler's art is an inbetween one. Pitch & Glint remains a secret until you find a way in, reading it as an evocation and as a challenge to move in echoing sounds.' Martin Ahrends, Die Zeit
