Chus Pato (1955) is a central figure in a literary culture that flourishes in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. There, the Galician language has long resisted the centrist administrative and social pressures of the Spanish government. In her poetry, Pato continues to refashion the ways in which we construct ourselves as an individual, community, nation, or world. In her daring grammatical and lyrical hybridisations, we come face to face with the traumas and migrations of Western Europe.