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Selected Poems from 'Les Fleurs du Mal'

Baudelaire, Charles
Selected Poems from 'Les Fleurs du Mal'
The poems of The Flowers of Evil were written in Paris at a time of revolution and accelerating change - the beginning of mass culture, the rise of consumerism and the middle-class, the radical redevelopment of the city by Haussmann - and they provide many parallels with the malaise and uncertainties of contemporary capitalist societies. Jan Owen's masterly translation captures all of this in a selection that includes many of Baudelaire's best...

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Six Czech Poets

Buchler, Alexandra
Six Czech Poets
The six poets whose work is included in this collection have become known to the wider Czech readership in the past ten to fifteen years, despite the fact that they belong to two very different generations: the generation exiled by the totalitarian regime of pre-Velvet Revolution Czechoslovakia - whether from public literary life or from the country itself - and the younger generation which started publishing in the late 1990s. Both were faced...

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Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance

Greg, Wioletta
Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance
One hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War, Wioletta Greg traces the seams of a family history through a hundred years of life, death, love and tragedy with passion and humour. From the lives of her grandparents in early twentieth-century Poland, through two world wars, life under Communism and the subsequent liberation, to her own experiences as a migrant living on a small island off the coast of Britain, this collection serv...

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Pro Eto - That's What

Mayakovsky, Vladimir
Pro Eto - That's What
Vladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post-revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man (he often employed the rough talk of the streets and revolutionary rhetoric in his poetry) as to other poets (his creative fascination with sound and form, linguistic metamorphosis and variation made him a sort of 'poet's poet', the doyen, if not the envy, of his contemporaries, Pasternak among them). His poet...

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Six Polish Poets

Dehnel, Jacek / Kuciak, Agnieszka / Dehnel, Jacek
Six Polish Poets
Six Polish Poets makes available to the English-language reader the poetry of the younger generation of poets who whose first collections (with one exception) have been published in the past decade.Unlike the poets of the previous generation who, in the period of new-found freedom after the fall of communism, adopted a highly individualistic, anarchic, sometimes brutal style, the poets represented here re-examine and experiment with traditiona...

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Bloodhoof

Kristný, Gerður
Bloodhoof
Bloodhoof is the re-casting into compulsively spare modern verse of an ancient Eddic poem - but this only begins to hint at its attractions. It is a minimalist epic telling of the abduction of Gerdur Gymisdottir from the land of giants to the court of Freyr of the 'wolf-grey eyes', and the subsequent events culminating in the birth of her son and her hopes of being saved by her own kin.It is full of iron-hard rocks and ice, serpents in the bre...

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The Names of the Sea-Trout

Rawling, Tom
The Names of the Sea-Trout
The Names of the Sea-Trout, his last published collection of poems, confirmed Tom Rawling as a spiritual poet. Drawing on his childhood in Cumberland, his passion for trout-fishing and his relationship with his wife, he creates in these poems images that are full of resonances of a bygone era, yet are sharp, immediate and brilliantly luminous. This collection undoubtedly underlined Rawling's reputation as a thoroughly contemporary pastoral poet.

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The Infinite's Ash

Rodriguez Nunez, Victor
The Infinite's Ash
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez is one of today's most outstanding Cuban writers, although he has lived and worked outside of the island for nearly two decades, first in Nicaragua and Colombia and, since 1995, in the USA. The present collection, based on his selected poems With a Strange Scent of World: First Anthology, 1978-1998 (Havana, 2004), offers a representative sample, as well as a rewriting, of his early poetic work, full of vivid images from ...

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Half-light & Other Poems

Baratynsky, Yevgeny
Half-light & Other Poems
Half-Light & Other Poems brings together the most important and enduring poems by this neglected writer, one of Russia's great 19th century poets. In a new translation by Peter France, the philosophical, social and literary struggles of Russia under Tsar Nicholas I are brought to vivid life in dazzling, often fantastical fashion.

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Pure Contradiction

Rilke, Rainer
Pure Contradiction
Rainer Maria Rilke was described by another great poet, Maria Tsvetaeva, as 'not a poet, but the embodiment of poetry'. His work spans the divide between Europe's turn-of-the-century decadence and its post First World War revolutionary modernism, always struggling to develop, to seek and reach beyond itself. This bilingual selection gathers poems from all periods of Rilke's life and artistic development but, instead of arranging them chronolog...

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The Ballads of Kukutis

Martinaitis, Marcelijus
The Ballads of Kukutis
In creating the character of Kukutis, Marcelijus Martinaitis found a voice which could articulate the anger, frustration and passions of the Lithuanian people, a voice which, contrary to all expectations, managed to escape the Soviet censor's pen and which, a decade after publication of The Ballads of Kukutis, was to become the catalyst for revolution in the Baltics. Indeed, during the mass political rallies of the late 1980s and early '90s, p...

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You are Her

France, Linda
You are Her
Linda France's seventh full-length collection is concerned with the dulaities of our inner and outer worlds - the seeming paradoxes of self and society, language and experiment, ideal and reality. At the heart of the book is a section look at Nature and Cultivation through the life and work of the landscape gardner Capability Brown.

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Still Life with Loops

Tolaretxipi, Eli / Jenkins, Philip
Still Life with Loops
Features poetry by the Basque poet Eli Tolaretxipi. This book features a collection drawing on the language of the visual arts to portray the end of a failing relationship, and also reflecting on the nature of perception and poetry.

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Thaw

Rodríguez Núñez, Víctor
Thaw
Thaw is a book length sequence of decimas (ten line poems). At first glance these seem simple meditations on nature that, when given time, open out into larger reflections on human experience, emotions and how the three interact. They shine as small gifts of visions or place that envelop the reader with their sensuous immediacy. Núñez enjoys playing with symbols, allowing images to break out to offer intellectual puzzles and literary reference...

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I Dreamed in the Cities at Night

Campert, Remco / Boase-Beier, Jean
I Dreamed in the Cities at Night
Remco Campert is a writer of considerable standing in Holland who came to prominence in the 1950s. A chronicler of alternative Amsterdam life in fiction, as a columnist in a national newspaper, as a film-maker, and above all as a poet, Campert gained a following of English speakers through this translation of his quiet and quirky poetry.

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Paradise Empty

Mujica, Hugo
Paradise Empty
Hugo Mujica is one of Argentina's top intellectuals and a leading poet in Spanish. His award-winning poetry has been published in 15 countries. This bilingual edition offers the English-speaking reader for the first time a representative selection of all of his poetry, where idea and feeling, synthesis and eloquence, truth and beauty come together.

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Lost Evenings, Lost Lives

Cheran, V. I. S. / Jeyapalan, V. I. S. / Nuhman, M. A.
Lost Evenings, Lost Lives
In May 2009, the Sri Lankan government officially announced the end of a civil war that had been ravaging the island for almost three decades. During all these years, Tamil poets have commented on the war and its vicissitudes in what constitutes an extraordinary body of poetry. Together these poems can be read as an alternative history of the war. This collection of up to 50 poems translated from the original Tamil, comes with an afterword tha...

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