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Wolf One-Eye

Juris Kronbergs

Wolf One-Eye

Wolf One-Eye is an extraordinary cycle of poems - magical, mysterious, sinister, funny - about exile, in which the eponymous protagonist finds himself an exile from an ancient mythological landscape in a new realm of quarks and strange universes.

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The Fishermen Sleep

Sabine Lange

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.

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Far from Sodom

Inna Lisnianskaya

Far from Sodom

Lisnianskaya is a poet of instinct — lyrical, intense, defiant, tragic — in whose poetry time, death and the need for love are key themes. In Far from Sodom, which spans her poetic output from 1967 to 2003, she writes with tender insight into love and loss in old age, and in particular about her late husband, the celebrated poet Semyon Lipkin.

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Women and Days

Gabriel Ferrater

Women and Days

The Catalan poet, Gabriel Ferrater (1922-1972) is a poet of personal experience — he once suggested that his poetry had an affinity with Hardy's, a poet he greatly admired. He succeeds like no other poet in capturing the feeling of Catalan society both during and since the Spanish Civil War (1936-39).

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In the Temple of a Patient God

Bejan Matur

In the Temple of a Patient God

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; nothing explains itself; nothing lasts. Horsemen gallop out of the night only to fade into the mountains on the horizon. Gravestones line the roads. Ruined houses howl with wind while shepherds sing dirges about a shattered, scattered tribe left to wander in the dark. It is a haunted, desolate and fragmented landscape in which every stone glows with a grief beyond words...

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Absurd Athlete

Yannis Kondos

Absurd Athlete

Absurd Athlete, Yannis Kondos' tenth collection of poetry for which he was awarded the coveted State Prize for Poetry in 1998, is a beautifully balanced work — moving, funny, lyrical, ironic, painful — now made available to a wider readership in David Connolly's superb translation.

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Between Nothing and Nothing

Ernst Meister

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.

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Scent of the Unseen

Mila Haugová

Scent of the Unseen

"In a time when western culture generates most of its symbols through the distortions of television, Mila Haugová retains the remarkable ability to sing of the symbolic heights and depths of experience. Bold, iconic and revelatory, these translations do great services to the poems of a major Central European writer." Andy Brown

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The Sublime Song of a Maybe

Arjen Duinker

The Sublime Song of a Maybe

This is a collection full of laughter, exuberance, tenderness and the poet's humanity, brought alive to an English-speaking readership for the first time in Willem Groenewegen's painstaking and sensitive translation.

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33 Sonnets of the Resistance

Jean Cassou

33 Sonnets of the Resistance

Through his fine and thoughtful translation of these sonnets and a selection of Cassou's later poems, Timothy Ades gives us the opportunity of discovering an unfamiliar, and now historical, poetic voice.

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