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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A selection of poems by Agnar Artuvertin, the first in English translation. A Faroese poet and translator with 28 books to his name, Artuvertin lives in Torshavn in the Faroe Islands. A collection of his poems, entitled Ifreann, was published by Coisceim, Dublin, in 2012. A selection of poems by Faroese poet Agnar Artuvertin, the first in English translation. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A POEM GOES ABOUT ON FOOT is a selection of twenty-one of the shorter poems of Joaquin Pasos with translations by New Zealand translator Roger Hickin.Almost unknown to English-language readers, Joaquin Pasos (191447) was a precocious Nicaraguan poet who by the time he was sixteen was one of the pillars of the experimental Vanguardia group. His work, which ranges from playful lyrics to the apocalyptic masterpiece 'Canto de guerra de las cosas', appeared in journals at home and abroad, but he never published a book. Although he never travelled, in his poetry he was, as Ernesto Cardenal noted, the most travelled of Nicaraguan poets. He sometimes wrote in inexplicable English, and was the first poet to attempt to enter the world of the indigenous Nicaraguans.Cardenal wrote of him: Joaquin was very happy, and at times, bohemian. He gave himself up to a life of revelry which was more than his delicate body could withstand, although he was also deeply religious. In that life he squandered all his money without a thought for tomorrow and squandered his imagination and his talent and his time and his health. He squandered his life, and died an early death.Almost unknown to English-language readers, Joaquin Pasos is one of Nicaraguas most important and beloved poets. While some English translations of his poems have appeared in journals and anthologies, this is the first time a bilingual Spanish/English volume devoted to Pasos has been published. The first bilingual Spanish/English volume devoted to Joaquin Pasos, one of Nicaraguas most important and beloved poets, A POEM GOES ABOUT ON FOOT is a selection of twenty-one of the poets shorter poems with translations by New Zealand translator Roger Hickin. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. First book publication of poetry by young German poet Katharina Mueller. With translations by US translator Matthew Landrum.Katharina Muellers poetry circles around questions of home, distance, and absence. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Cactus body is a chapbook of poems by celebrated Nicaraguan poet Blanca Castellon with translations from the Spanish by Roger Hickin. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the three recent and previously untranslated poems in this volume Cardenal writes about Venice, ageing and nostalgia; gives a vivid account of the elderly Alexander von Humboldt as he recalls his explorations in Venezuela and his encounters with Simon Bolivar and Thomas Jefferson; and considers the history of human evolution. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "This is a sequence of sketches, attempts to describe a room.I go at the description from different sides, but all the attempts are futile; that is, they lead nowhere," says the poet of 'Thirty-nine rooms'. "As a writer, I know that only a few of the phenomena of our world and the human condition (and these the least interesting ones) can be described in words. So I use poetry as a kind of super-language, by which I can (at least try to) express the 'unspeakable,' what Wittgenstein instructed us to keep quiet about." Baitov's poems "are almost always generated by a random thought, a random experience, even just a single random word or phrase." Translator J. Kates finds "something expansive and even world-wide about the 'Thirty-nine Rooms', for all its ostensible claustrophobia. It takes on Persian rubaiyat, Malaysian pantoum and Horatian ode in its Russian setting." Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Two suites of ten poems: "Old Testament Voices" and "The Arrest of Osip Mandelstam", plus "Letter to Etheridge": a moving memorial poem for Etheridge Knight. Two suites of ten poems: "Old Testament Voices" and "The Arrest of Osip Mandelstam", plus "Letter to Etheridge": a moving memorial poem for Etheridge Knight. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Alexander Blok (1880-1921), the last major poet of the Russian Silver Age, a member of the intelligentsia and a scion of the landed aristocracy who joined the revolution, wrote his still-controversial 'The Twelve' in January 1918. A poem of stark contrasts of lyrical and colloquial, of shifting rhythms, fragments of prayers, slogans and slang, of mockery and violence, cruelty and pain, exultation and pity, it is set in the aftermath of the 1917 October Revolution as a snow storm buries the past, and twelve Red Guards march through the desolate streets of St Petersburg dispensing violence and murder, and a snow-wreathed figure of Christ bearing a bloodied flag appears at their head--an image that surprised and troubled the poet himself.An earlier version of this translation was published in the anthology The Silver Age of Russian Culture (Ardis, 1975). In 2020 with the centenary of Blok's death (7 August 1921) in mind it was completely revised.'Blok possessed all the qualities that go to make a great poet . . .Drawn by his attentiveness, as if on a tide of air, reality whirls into his poems.' --Boris Pasternak'Blok heard the subterranean music of Russian history, where the most highly attuned ear caught only a syncopated pause . . . Despite various idle interpretations, 'The Twelve' is immortal, like folklore.' --Osip Mandelstam'In my opinion his nationalism is nothing but a construct based on Dostoevsky . . . He didn't know Russia, he didn't know the Russian people; he was an upper-class student.' --Fyodor Sologub'He was so much a creation of the spirit, so much a spirit made visible, that we must wonder how life could permit him to exist at all.'--Marina Tsvetaeva A new translation of the great Russian poet Alexander Blok's still controversial 1918 poem 'The Twelve', by New Zealand author Natasha Templeton & New Zealand poet Alan Roddick. With illustrations from woodcuts by Wayne Seyb. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In The Speak House David Howard takes "the common phrase 'my life flashed before my eyes' as a signpost", and creates a "feverish tumble of impressions" that might have occurred in the final two hours of Robert Louis Stevenson's life, either just before or just after he lost consciousness. The Speak House was written while the poet was Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, in 2013. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Charles Brasch and Peter Soskice's translations of the early twentieth century Russian lyric poet Sergei Esenin were first published under the present title in 1970 in a chapbook described as "printed by several student hands at the Wai-te-ata Press, Department of English, Victoria University of Wellington", with a cover by Robin White. For this new edition of "Poems by Esenin" Cold Hub Press has commissioned artist Wayne Seyb to create not just a new cover image, but a set of nine woodcuts to accompany the poems. "Esenin lived life as a folk tale. He was Prince Ivan who flew over the ocean on a gray wolf and caught the Firebird Isadora Duncan by the tail. He wrote his poems by fairy-tale means, sometimes as if from cards dealt out for a game of solitaire of words, sometimes in his heart's blood. What was most precious about him -- the depiction of the nature of his homeland, its woodlands, Central Russia, Ryazan -- he passed along with a stunning freshness the way it had been given to him in childhood." -- Boris Pasternak, "An autobiographical sketch" (translation J. Kates). Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A poignant and humorous series of poems exploring the mental state and post-separation daily life of an obsessive-compulsive writer, as he addresses his absent partner. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Robert McLean is a defiantly modernist poet who often uses traditional metres and rhyme to explore the complexities of history and selfhood. His intellectually cosmopolitan and questioning verse attempts to re-illuminate how acts of attentionby Nijinsky, Andrea del Sarto, David Esterley, Charles Fourier, John Mulgan and othershave sanctified, if only momentarily, the world with all its wrecks and wonders. Enduring Love features a generous selection of poems from his four previous collections; the sixty-two sestet tour de force A Graveyard by the Sea; and more than thirty new poems, including two long sequences: The Passions of William Colenso and A Fantasia in the Voice of DArcy Cresswell.Robert McLean is a defiantly modernist poet who often uses traditional metres and rhyme to explore the complexities of history and selfhood. His intellectually cosmopolitan and questioning verse attempts to re-illuminate how acts of attentionby Nijinsky, Andrea del Sarto, David Esterley, Charles Fourier, John Mulgan and othershave sanctified, if only momentarily, the world with all its wrecks and wonders. Enduring Love features a generous selection of poems from his four previous collections; the sixty-two sestet tour de force A Graveyard by the Sea; and more than thirty new poems, including two long sequences: The Passions of William Colenso and A Fantasia in the Voice of DArcy Cresswell. Enduring Love features a generous selection of poems from the previous collections of this defiantly modernist New Zealand poet. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. `Dan Davin, best known for his prose fiction, memoirs, and work in academic publishing, also wrote poetry. Not that he wrote poetry throughout his life; rather, it was almost exclusively written in three discrete periods: during the mid-to-late thirties while at university in New Zealand and England; during the Second World War while on service in Greece, North Africa, and Italy; and after his retirement from the Clarendon Press in Oxford and in nearby Dorchester in the mid-eighties. A FIELD OFFICER'S NOTEBOOK makes this body of work available to general readers for the first time. Although all Davin's poems deserve to be read, those he wrote during his time as an intelligence officer with the Second New Zealand Division are revelatory and ought to be given their due as much by students of literature as by those of modern warfare. Quite unlike anything in New Zealand literature--exacting yet generous, angry but tender, almost sui generis--they speak strangely of even stranger things that defined a generation. Davin's poems speak unguardedly and disarmingly about one man's life . . . in a voice that haunts long after it has been heard.' --from the introduction by Robert McLean`This is one of those rare posthumous publications that allows us to read an author we know from a new and more personal perspective.' --Vincent O'Sullivan A FIELD OFFICER'S NOTEBOOK gathers, for the first time, a selection of poems, mostly previously unpublished, by Dan Davin (1913-1990), better known as a novelist, short story writer, literary critic and academic publisher at Oxford University Press. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Poet and storyteller Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919 2004) is one of Portugal's best-loved writers. Her poems express her deep connection with the natural world, her main subjects being childhood and youth, nature and, above all, the sea. She was also steeped in classical literature, and some of her Greek-inspired poems are present in this selection which features translations from two of her poetry collections Dia do Mar and O Nome das Coisas translations made by Colin Rorrison before his sudden death in Argentina at the age of 28, and edited by the celebrated translator Margaret Jull Costa. Dia do Mar was published in 1947, when the poet was 28. Its subjects are gardens, the sea, the beach and the house, and its central theme, the search for perfection, purity and harmony. The poems have all the intensity of childhood memories, but are imbued, too, with an adult awareness of mortality. O Nome das Coisas was published thirty years later, after the Carnation Revolution of 1974 and the overthrow of the Salazar/Caetano regime after almost fifty years of repression.Many of its poems are political and refer to a particular time and place and situation, and yet they remain strikingly bracing and fresh. A bi-lingual English/Portuguese selection of poems by one of Portugal's greatest 20th century poets: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Owen Leeming's 1972 collection Venus is Setting, with its centrepiece 'The Priests of Serrabonne', was marked for praise by Kendrick Smithyman, Vincent O'Sullivan and James K. Baxter, but it would take the best part of five decades until his next collection was published. Latitudes: New & Selected Poems contains selections from Venus is Setting and 2019's Through Your Eyes, which comprised poems from the 1960s and 70s along wiith others written in more recent years. It also includes a section of hitherto uncollected earlier poems and another of new work offered for the first time.Leeming's early poems remain fresh and energetic, marked by their rare reconciliation of the playful and the serious. The recent poems sparkle intensified brio and bumptiousness, by which readers are offered the world freshly rendered in words with an utterly uncommon intelligence and sensuousness.Charting a course from youthful disillusionment to celebratory old-age, Owen Leeming's Latitudes: New & Selected Poems will surprise, delight and challenge readers of poetry with its open-eyed love of life and language. Latitudes: New & Selected Poems contains selections from Venus is Setting (1972) and Through Your Eyes (2018), which comprised poems from the 1960s and 70s along with others written in more recent years. It also includes a section of hitherto uncollected earlier poems and another of new work offered for the first time. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. New Zealand poet and anthropologist Michael Jackson has been described by Martin Edmond as "one of our most astute, humane, idiosyncratic, neglected and perdurable writers." His poetry is characterised by its cosmopolitan range, its conceptual depth, lyrical concision, and craftsmanship. Jackson writes, "I have always felt the need to refer my poems, as Basho does, to a place, time or event that brought it into being; to acknowledge that poems are not just texts, but have contexts. Poems are like windows that give us a glimpse of a world we travel through all too quickly. I think of Colin McCahon's Northland Panels; the paintings stop you in your tracks, each one transcending time and circumstance while firmly rooted in mundane realities."Jackson's vocation as a world-class anthropologist, and his spending so much of his life away from his own country, are shaping forces on his oeuvre. 'Expatriate' is not quite the word for one, any more than the tag 'intellectual' will suffice for the other. But the notion of 'home', with its stir of resonances, is at the core of all he writes. It is both the well and the hearth his poetry circles, draws from, celebrates, mourns.It is what experience impresses and myth confirms.His poetry reads as a constant unearthing, the shaped and responding artifact confirming where it is found." -Vincent O'Sullivan WALKING TO PENCARROW is a selection of poems from the author's eight previous volumes, 1976 - 2013. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Editor Robert McLean describes In the supplementary garden as a generous harvest from Bridge's five previous books of poetry, including a number of the lyric sequences at which she especially excels, along with a suite of new poems, which for me contains some of her finest work. Janet Hughes, in her introductory essay, writes: "The five volumes represented in this selection amount to a substantial oeuvre, and the new poems demonstrate that the veins she has mined are far from worked out. All the poems are underpinned by scholarship in English and classical Chinese literature and the Classical tradition. It is deployed lightly, but this is still sophisticated, uncompromising poetry, demanding an agile response."Awarding the 2015 Sarah Broom Poetry Prize to Diana Bridge, the chief judge, Irish poet Vona Groarke, described her work as "possibly amongst the best being written anywhere right now--for the arresting composure of the poems, for their reach and depth, for their carefully-wrought thought and language, for the beauty of their phrasing, for how they are both intellectually astute and also sensual and accessible, for the way they catch you up short and make you wonder, with a delightful wonder, just how it is they have brought you to where they have brought you; for their wit and style and yes, their seriousness." A generous harvest from New Zealand poet Diana Bridge's five previous books of poetry, including a number of the lyric sequences at which she especially excels, along with a suite of new poems, which contains some of her finest work. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Blanca Castellon (b.1958, Managua) is a poet of "fluent dryness", "emotional spareness", and "intimate acuity", "as light as foam and as sharp as a cut-throat razor" (Rogelio Guedea). She belongs to the post-Sandinista, post-utopian generation of Nicaraguan poets who presented a more individual, more intimate and enigmatic vision than the 'exteriorist' poetry that came out of the poetry workshops of Ernesto Cardenal's Ministry of Culture. As Guedea writes in his introduction, her poetry is not "a weapon loaded with the future" (Gabriel Celaya) but "an 'unknown island' ('insula extrana'), and this clearly links it to Pizarnik, Plath and Dickinson, but also to Ida Vitale and Idea Vilarino .poets with unique and genuine voices who stand apart from a lyrical status quo dominated by masculine voices." It is "a settling of scores with reality, a reality (inner and outer) perverse and out of order". Hers is a voice with "a syncopated rhythm of bitter upset .carefully honed, and torn, but not at the expense of her delicacy."Of Cactus body, a 2014 chapbook of Castellon's work, Gioconda Belli wrote: "Blanca Castellon's poetry, in Roger Hickin's impeccable translation, possesses the great virtues of sassiness and surprise. It is full of trees with secret holes through which she slips into her own unique Wonderland where she is both Alice and the Queen of Hearts pulling an ace from her sleeve with a quiet flourish that turns everything upside down. Cactus Body is a small door which opens on to the world of wonder and beauty of an exceptional poet." Poet Michael Harlow wrote: "This is an excellent match of poet and translator: Roger Hickin's translations are clearly the work of a poet-translator who is nicely attuned to the thought-music of the originals, able to articulate the tensions inherent in a poetry that is willing to take risks with feeling in search of a language." A selection of poems drawn from Nicaraguan poet Blanca Castellon's three previous out-of-print collections, with a generous sampling of new poems. In Spanish with English translations. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "To make a poem was to plan the perfect crime. / To contrive an immaculate lie / whose purity made it true." (Carlos Martinez Rivas) There are few English translations of the great and often difficult Carlos Martinez Rivas (1924-1998), a passionate and linguistically brilliant Nicaraguan poet - celebrated throughout the Hispanic world, but still almost unknown to English readers - who raised a "solitary insurrection" against society's oppressive orthodoxies and hypocrisies. A handful have appeared over the years in journals and anthologies, but these are the first to be published as a collection. The twenty-five poems translated here include several of the "major" poems as well as a few "minor" and occasional ones--from the youthful idealism of "El paraiso recobrado" via the fatalism of "La puesta en sepulcro" to the illusion-stripped "Los amores"--providing at least a taste of this multi-dimensional poet's concerns: love, loss, friendship, mortality, integrity, the visual arts, cats, and alcoholism among them.An aversion to public success and its trappings, along with a dread of typographical errors, contributed to his reluctance to see his work in print, and "El paraiso recobrado" (Granada, 1943) and "La insurreccion solitaria" (Mexico, 1953, reprinted numerous times) were the only books of his poetry he permitted to be published in his lifetime. The first was a long metaphysical love poem published when he was only eighteen, the latter included what is widely regarded as his masterpiece, "Canto funebre a la muerte de Joaquin Pasos", a funeral poem for his great friend and fellow poet, Joaquin Pasos, who died in 1947 at the age of 33. In "Los Anos de Granada" (2002) Ernesto Cardenal has written of the young Martinez Rivas: ".I never knew anyone, anywhere, with the genius for poetry Carlos had in those days. Add to this his fabulous memory, his scintillating conversation, his charm, his sense of humour, his guitar. Lorca must have been just like him." Alcoholic in later life, and "at the mercy of his art" (to borrow John Berryman's phrase about Mozart), he could be "difficult, problematic, solitary .One had to approach him with caution" (Jose Coronel Urtecho)."Few poets have loved and hated life as much as Carlos Martinez Rivas. His whole oeuvre is one of rebellion and daring, of a profound tenderness and an irrepressible anger." --Nicasio Urbina "A lone voice .at once surreal and deeply human." --Rogelio Guedea "Our extraordinary wild cat who once took the elite of Spanish America by surprise .who remained at the margins he favoured, untamed and unique .our greatest poet after Dario." --Blanca Castellon This is the first collection of English translations of Carlos Martinez Rivas (1924-1998), a passionate and linguistically brilliant Nicaraguan poet - celebrated throughout the Hispanic world, but still almost unknown to English readers - who raised a "solitary insurrection" against society's oppressive orthodoxies and hypocrisies. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In 1933 the German Jewish poet Karl Wolfskehl (1869-1948), deeply disturbed by the brutal anti-Semitism rising in his native Germany, fled into exile in Switzerland and Italy. When Italy too adopted anti-Jewish legislation Wolfskehl left Europe, seeking asylum in faraway New Zealand, where he found shelter and the peace to continue writing poetry: his Mediterranean cycle and his most important composition Job, or The Four Mirrors. This first ever comprehensive selection of Wolfskehl's poetry in English translation, the work of New Zealand translator Andrew Paul Wood and Wolfskehl scholar Friedrich Voit, includes poems from his beginnings around 1900, but focuses on the work from his years of exile when he emerged from the shadow of his admired poet-friend Stefan George and found his own distinctive voice. It is in these poems that the 'three worlds', which constituted the creative identity of the poet Karl Wolfskehl, are expressed. In the famous lines of his autobiographical poem Ultimus Vatum: Secretive and proud, worldly-wise, humble in God Remained I Jewish, Roman, German all at once. A naturalized New Zealander, Karl Wolfskehl died in 1948, in Auckland.His tombstone in the Waikumete cemetery bears his name in Hebrew and German, and underneath, the Latin inscription: Exul Poeta."The poetry created or finished in New Zealand is his best." --Peter Russell, New Zealand Books 100, Summer 2012."I remember his size among my tomatoes: it was prodigious; and on the soft soil he left giant footprints." --Frank Sargeson, More than Enough. Karl Wolfskehl scholar Friedrich Voit and New Zealand translator Andrew Paul Wood have worked together to produce the first ever comprehensive selection in English translation (with facing German texts) of the poetry of German Jewish poet Wolfskehl (1869-1948) who spent the last 10 years of his life in exile in New Zealand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Sweeping the courtyard, the selected poems of Michael Harlow, provides a generous sampling from this major New Zealand poet's previous seven collections: Edges (1974), Nothing but Switzerland and Lemonade (1980), Today is the Piano's Birthday (1981), Vlaminck's Tie (1985), Giotto's Elephant (1991), Cassandra's Daughter (2005, 2006), and The Tram Conductor's Blue Cap (2009, Finalist National Book Awards 2010). "What does it mean, in the face of the absurd and shadowy things thrown up by life, to risk delight? What is it that 'love dares the self to do and be'?" --Michael Harlow Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.