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Elaine Feinstein
In these poems, Feinstein writes about love, loss, jealousy and the fear of abandonment. She writes with tenderness about an ageing father, a child on a swing, old films, a…
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Focusing on the legendary Russian poet, this comprehensive biography is a rich narrative of the dramatic life of Anna Akhmatova. of illustrations.
A career-defining collection from the multiple prize-winning poet, translator and biographer which touches poignantly on universal matters - the inevitability of age, marriage, women’s issues, family conflicts etc…
Feinstein explores the haunted landscape between past and present, public history and personal memory, in simple intense lyrics.
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The latest collection by Elaine Feinstein, the renowned poet, novelist, translator and memoirist.
Presents a collection of poems that evoke the poet’s long marriage, and the remembered voice of her dead husband. Opening with a death in winter, the author renders a tender…
The first biography of the former Poet Laureate, famous for his marriage to Sylvia Plath, the subject of his bestseller, BIRTHDAY LETTERS, which has sold over 200,000 copies in hardback.
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[The] biography that needed to be written, an attempt to set the record straight and clear the air. -The New York Times Book Review
Explores the landscape of twentieth century Russian literature. This autobiographical novel reconstructs the lives and fates of Russian, often Jewish, writers during the long age of Soviet terror, re-establishing them…
Life of the Russian poet who withstood Stalinism and became an inspiration to millions
Elaine Feinstein’s voice is clear, passionate and subtle. She writes about love, loss, jealousy and the pressures of living as mother and wife, drawing coherent shapes out of her own…
Muriel Spark
Muriel Sparks’s celebrated autobiography with a preface by the poet and biographer Elaine Feinstein.
Marina Tsvetaeva
This edition of Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva has been enlarged and revised. It includes ten new translations, as well an introduction and additional poems.
Iris Murdoch
Blaise’s wife Harriet lives for love, love of her husband, love of her son. She too lives for love: for love and justice and revenge, aided and incited by her…
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Elaine Feinstein’s ground-breaking translations of one of the most celebrated Russian poets of the twentieth century, reissued as a Carcanet Classic.
Gyoergy Petri
Gyoergy Petri (1943-2000) belonged to the generation of Hungarian poets who grew up after the uprising of 1956. He made his name in the West as the most uncompromising and…
