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Sublime Song of a Maybe: Selected Poems
Häftad, 2005
174 kr
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"These poems come right up to the reader, go through his pockets, check the seams and hems of his personality, his essence, his baggage, amiably but determinedly shaking him down.""A very lyrical poet." Remco Ekkers.Introduction by Jeffrey Wainwright.Translated by Willem Groenewgen.This book is …
33 Sonnets of the Resistance & Other Poems
Av Jean Cassou
Häftad, 2005
239 kr
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An extraordinary collection of sonnets composed while the poet was in solitary confinement and deprived of writing materials in a Vichy prison between December 1941 and February 1942, in a new prize-winning translation.Introduction by Alistair Elliotwith an original introduction byLouis Aragon
In The Temple Of A Patient God
Av Bejan Matur
Häftad, 2004
245 kr
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In the Temple of a Patient GodTranslated by Ruth Christie with an introduction by Maureen FreelyVisible Poets series no. 12, parallel-text edition"To read Bejan Matur is to walk into a windswept desert strewn with bones and broken bodies and stones stained red by absent gods. Nothing is whole; …
Cold Spring in Winter
Häftad, 2009
177 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2010 Griffin International Prize, the world's largest poetry prize.Cold Spring in Winter (Pas Revoir in its original French) caused quite a stir when it was published in 1999. Here was the shock of an authentically new voice in whose urgent, stammered cadences an adult, and the …
Wolf One-Eye
Häftad, 2006
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TRANSLATED BY MARA ROZITIS An extraordinary cycle of poems – magical, mysterious, sinister, funny – about exile, in which the protagonist, Wolf One-Eye, finds himself an exile from an ancient mythological landscape in a new realm of quarks and expanding and alternating universes. Dislocated and …
I Dreamed in the Cities at Night
Selected Poems
Av Remco Campert, Jean Boase-Beier
Häftad, 2007
177 kr
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Translated By Donald GardnerFaded Days It was late in the eveningrain caught in lamplight beat down on the cobbles of the Old Mechlin Road you were wearing an off-white dress I'd have guessed you were fifteen you were walking down the street as I was crossing cars passed by braked rode on you asked …
Flights of Zarza
Häftad, 2008
149 kr
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The Flights of Zarza, published in 1992, appeared in the decade in which democratic rule returned to Argentina after seven years of brutal dictatorship and state terror, a period which Kofman, a Jew, likened to Germany before and during WWII. The post-dictatorship years of the late 80s were …
State of Emergency
Av Soleiman Adel Guemar, Jean Boase-Beier
Häftad, 2007
177 kr
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Vengeanceparticular soldiersdisfigured the face of my beloveddead for having believed freedompossiblethe Berlin Wall fell far from useven as we were singingof an earlier victoryso very quickly confiscatedI've no desire to beg pardonOf my torturers – as if! –I've no desire to close my eyesSoleïman …
Before the Invention of Paradise
Häftad, 2010
177 kr
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Before the Invention of Paradise is a selection from Steinherr's nine collections published since his debut collection in 1985. Dealing with the things that concern many modern German poets – silence, memory, knowing and the impossibility of knowing, the everyday and what is beyond – Steinherr's is …
Whispers and Breath of the Meadows
Häftad, 2010
164 kr
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Davoyan's work reflects the experiences of an old nation, yet it is fresh and very personal at the same time. It is impossible not to feel the struggles, hopes and aspirations of his native land in his work. Whispers & Breath of the Valleys is a book charged with energy – indeed, W. N. Herbert, in …
Book of the Snow
Häftad, 2010
177 kr
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Shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize 2011.The first English translation of this winner of the 1991 Max-Jacob Prize.The Book of the Snow consists of 112 short poems inspired by a bleak and beautiful natural landscape, where the falling snow gives rise to a sequence of poems that …
As I Said: Selected Poems
Av Lev Loseff
Häftad, 2012
174 kr
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These poems contemplate the poet's native land of Russia, while at the same time casting a jaundiced eye on the alien culture of America, where he spent the final years of his life.Whether absorbed by the world of literature (particularly his fellow poets) or relating real-life experiences, Loseff …
Scent of Your Shadow
Häftad, 2010
148 kr
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Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Summer 2010Arc 'Visible Poets' translation series, no. 29My soul is like these threads of spider silk tensed criss-cross between two apple treesRooted in an ancient folk song tradition, Kristiina Ehin's poetry is both universal and deeply personal; her …
Peatlands
Häftad, 2014
177 kr
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Peatlands is the first bilingual single collection of Mexican poet Pedro Serrano's work to be published in the UK. Introduced by WN Herbert, the poems are as linguistically thrilling as they are wide-ranging: with subjects as diverse as snakes and swallows, valleys and skyscrapers, weariness and …
Play of Waves
Häftad, 2017
233 kr
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The Play of Waves is a collection of poems written over the period of five years by Malta’s most distinguished poet, Immanuel Mifsud. It falls into six sections: the first consists of mainly lyrical poems; the second explores mental instability and the fluidity of the Self; the third is a sequence …
Memorial to the Future
Häftad, 2017
174 kr
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It is no coincidence that the poet Volker von Törne was, for many years, the Director of Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste (Action for Atonement – Service for Peace), the German charitable organisation for education and reparation in countries throughout the world that have suffered under fascism …
To the Outermost Stars
Av Stein Mehren
Häftad, 2019
162 kr
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Stein Mehren “is one of Norwegian literature’s greatest lyricists, and perhaps its finest love poet. His ground-breaking imagery and use of language are intensified by paradoxical turns of expression… The rhythmical force he creates is at times symphonic and melodious, rising towards the ecstatic, …
Anthracite
Av Bartolo Cattifi, Bartolo Cattafi m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
139 kr
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Translated by Brian Cole, with an introduction by Peter Dale.Parallel text, Italian / English"Brian Cole translates Cattafi's precise meditations and unexpected imagery with skill and subtlety."Translation Review:"This is a subtle book full of those flashes of half-recognition that come 'when the …
Words Have Frozen Over
Av Claude de Burine, Claude De Burine
Häftad, 2001
136 kr
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"The greatest female poetic voice of our time." Rimbaud Revue"Burine's themes are the grand commonplaces of poetry – love and time, death and memory – and I am grateful for the introduction to her beautiful and intriguing work." Glyn Pursglove, Acumen.Introduction by Susan Wicks.Translated by …
Recycling
Häftad, 2005
135 kr
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"One of the most powerful recent achievements of the poet who has been called 'the chronicler of the 20th century', and recognised as one of Europe's outstanding artists. I am haunted by the vision of history and politics which I draw from Rózewicz." Tom PaulinIntroduced by Adam …
Guests of Eternity
Häftad, 2008
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Larissa Miller is one of Russia's most highly-regarded writers - novelist, essayist and poet - and this selection from her collection "Between the Cloud and the Pit" (1999) spans her poetic output from the 1960s to the millennium. "Guests of Eternity" is a presentation, in chronological order, of …
Kill the Radio
Häftad, 2007
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Striking new work by major Indonesian writer.In a strongly patriarchal society in which the norms of feminine subordination are sanctified by the strictures of religion, the rage and aggression in these poems is remarkable. Indeed, for many readers, these emotions are extremely exciting and offer a …
Far from Sodom
Av Inna Lisnianskaya, Jean Boase-Beier
Häftad, 2005
162 kr
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POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDED TRANSLATIONin a translation by Daniel Weissbort that Elaine Feinstein describes in her illuminating introduction as 'clean, clear and … amazingly felicitous'. Lisnianskaya, an intensely lyrical poet, is first and foremost a love poet, and the love that she and her …
Fishermen Sleep
Av Sabine Lange
Häftad, 2005
162 kr
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Translated from the German by Jenny Williams. Introduced by Mary O'Donnell. THE FISHERMEN The fishermen sleep.In their sou'westers sea foam evaporates from their eyes the scales fall onto the pale bodies of the fish who dream that the fishermen sleep. "I'm not a political poet… I'm more interested …
Ljubljana
Av Meta Kusar
Häftad, 2010
165 kr
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Ljubljana is Meta Kusar's city, where she has lived, wandered, bought and cooked her food, thought, written and loved. When she travels, it is to Ljubljana that she returns and this city, her constant home, has become her muse. Ljubljana, in its 77 untitled poems, reflects all of this. Each poem …
Still Life With Loops
Häftad, 2008
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Born in San Sebastian, and still living and working there, the Basque poet Eli Tolaretxipi has published two collections of poetry in Spanish – Past Love Still Life and The Loops of the Figure. Although translated into French and Italian, she has had to wait until the publication of this volume for …
Defying Fate
Häftad, 2009
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Translated by Christopher Pilling.Defying Fate, like most of Maurice Carème's poetry, is marked by its fluency and ease of access. Here are poems that charm at first sight, short, seductive to the eye and ear, satisfyingly metrical and given to rhyme. Their subject matter is generally familiar to …
At the Edge of Night
Av Anise Koltz
Häftad, 2009
162 kr
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At the Edge of Night, a selection from four recent collections by Anise Koltz, Luxembourg's best-known poet, brings the work of this daring and audacious poet to the attention of the English-speaking literary world for the first time. Written in Koltz's prolific seventh decade, these brief poems – …
Silence River
Häftad, 2012
152 kr
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Antônio Moura's third collection plays with both experimental and traditional poetic styles, giving it a powerful mythic reach and a bizarre, neo-Baroque flavour. Life in these poems appears as uncanny, mysterious, something to be faced by the individual. There is a tension between spiritual …
Memorial to the Future
Häftad, 2017
190 kr
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It is no coincidence that the poet Volker von Törne was, for many years, the Director of Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste (Action for Atonement – Service for Peace), the German charitable organisation for education and reparation in countries throughout the world that have suffered under fascism …
