German
Memorial to the Future
This selection from von Törne's collected poems is particularly significant in that it is a powerful and moving articulation of the psychological burden still carried by countless people today whose voices are not often heard, a burden which von Törne's powerful, poignant and sometimes angry poetry helps us all the better to understand.
- Paperback
£10.99£9.89 available - Hardback
£13.99£12.59 available
» More details...
Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees
Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees, to be published in Arc's flagship translation series 'Visible Poets', combines the poet's unerring instinct for the surprising perspective on commonplace objects or events - plants, animals, landscapes - with a mischievous delight in the detail of the absurd, the precarious balance.
- Paperback
£10.99£9.89 available - Hardback
£13.99£12.59 available
» More details...
While I am Drawing Breath
The experience of living in the Chernovtsy ghetto under the Nazis remains a dark undertow of all the poetry Auslénder wrote, though she rarely addresses it explicitly.
- Hardback
£10.99£9.89 available - Paperback temporarily out of stock
» More details...
Pure Contradiction: Selected Poems
This selection of poems from throughout Rilke's creative output is arranged not chronologically, but by placing poems of similar themes and / or modes of expression close to one another, making bed-fellows of poems rarely seen together. The aim is to illuminate the underlying themes which Rilke said he had arrived at very early in his life.
- Hardback
£10.99£9.89 available - Paperback
£10.99£9.89 available
» More details...
Before the Invention of Paradise
Ludwig Steinherr is one of the most compelling new voices to have emerged in Germany since the late 1980s and this selection - the first to appear in English - from his 10 poetry collections published between 1985 and 2005 reflects the breadth and depth of his writing, ranging from its post-Celanian darkness to its insistence on light.
- Paperback
£10.99£9.89 available - Hardback
£13.99£12.59 available
» More details...
The Fishermen Sleep
Sabine Lange has been in print in Germany since 1987 and this, her first full collection, appeared in 1994. Her poetry explores the human - particularly the female - condition in the light of her own experience as archivist, musician and poet, and is set against the backdrop of the beautiful and unspoilt Mecklenburg countryside in which she has spent most of her life.
- Paperback
£10.99£9.89 available
» More details...
To the Silenced: Selected Poems
A source of inspiration for artists, musicians and writers through the Expressionist period and beyond, Trakl's poetry bleak, yet full of tenderness and hope, nightmarish yet eerily beautiful has steadfastly defied any coherent critical analysis.
- Paperback
£10.99£9.89 available
» More details...
Between Nothing and Nothing
Ernst Meister has rarely before been translated into English, and yet his is a poetry which deals with the big issues: love, death, freedom, security and the ambiguity of existence.
- Paperback
£10.99£9.89 available
» More details...
Mother Tongue: Selected Poems
There were two ways to respond to that unbearable reality,
wrote Rose Ausländer thirty years later, remembering the Chernovtsy ghetto under the Nazis. Either one could despair entirely, or one could occupy a different, spiritual reality. And while we waited for death, there were those of us who dwelt in dreamwords — our traumatic home amidst our homelessness. To write was to live.
- Paperback
£10.99£9.89 available
» More details...