A Broken Man in Flower presents new versions of work by one of the most significant Greek poets of the last century, translated by one of the UK's most renowned contemporary poets.
The life of Yannis Ritsos was, to say the least, troubled. From an early age, he was dogged by the tuberculosis that...
Pandemia being a land or planet whose name derives from the word pandemic. This is an anthology of brilliant work by both established and emerging poets from across the English-speaking world, from Australia to India, Europe to North America. With its accounts of life changed utterly, lives abruptly...
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Salt is a distinctive new assembly of poems by the multi-award winning David Harsent. Resting somewhere between fragment and exposition, these intense and primal pieces stretch out across the measure of the page in the form of brief utterances. One extends to sonnet-length, one consists of a single...
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The city never sleeps. Silence would weaken it. When all else fails it talks to itself seamless thrum of machinery dark undertone. It is 00:00 and the full of the night yet to come. A man sits at a window through the dead hours of night, his sleep broken by troubling dreams of a figure in a...
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Sprinting from the Graveyard is a brilliant and ghastly series of poems by Serbian poet Goran Simic. Based on Simic's three harrowing years spent with his muslim wife and their two young children during the seige of Sarajevo, the poems are remarkably unpolitical, and instead are offered in the vein...
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Yannis Ritsos (1909–1990) is one of Greece’s finest and most celebrated poets, and was nine times nominated for a Nobel Prize. Louis Aragon called him ‘the greatest poet of our age’. He wrote in the face of ill health, personal tragedy and the systematic persecution by successive hard-line, right...
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Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990), one of Greece's great poets, was nine times nominated for the Nobel Prize. In Secret gives the reader David Harsent's free versions, "re-imaginings," "adaptations"--a precious few of Yannis Ritsos' short lyrics. His books were publicly burned and he spent many years in...
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