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Review: Orbita: The Project, by Orbita

Maria Stadnicka, Stride Magazine, 2018

This refreshing poetry collection is an unpredictable Latvian cultural project rather than a straightforward poetry anthology; a cross between concrete poetry, poetry installation and art gallery.

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The achievement of this innovative and remarkable anthology comes from the precision with which the four poets define, as Tony Ward mentions in the preface, a cultural path 'the UK poets of a half a century ago dreamed of but never achieved.'

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Orbita is an innovative and complex anthology, standing out to reinvigorate and to redefine the European literary space. For English language readers, it is an essential guide to European poetics; a space where everything becomes possible. And prepare yourself for more. The anthology comes with a QR code; when scanned it gives access to a further selection of works, which couldn't be reproduced in print.