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Eva Luka
Poems from a new Slovak voice reminiscent of Rilke and Sharon Olds.
An evocative collection by Slovak poet Eva Luka, The Minotaur's Daughter seamlessly melds the human and natural worlds…
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James Sutherland-Smith
This is a masterpiece. The love poetry is especially beautiful. The entire sequence is in a way a love poem [and] is a fine discourse on language, especially poetic language…
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Sixty-four improvisations, whose principal motifs are a stretch of a small river in Central Europe and a once feral black cat, navigate the language that we inhabit and that inhabits…
The poems in James Sutherland-Smith’s eighth collection move from the garden into the neighbourhood of a down-at-heel Hapsburg town and then range into the nearby forest, the personal and the…
The surface of many poems in this work draw on life in the Middle East and Middle Europe, but their interior is a tension between the allurements of the strange…
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Features poems that emerge from places where political upheaval has recently occurred and records the aftershock of moral and spiritual earthquakes, often in intimate contexts. This book records the author’s…
Maria Ferencuhova
Beginning as one of the cool, post-modernist Slovak aNesthetic and Text poets using a matter-of-fact language with precise visual perceptions, Maria Ferencuhova work has expanded its range of concerns from…
Mila Haugova
Mila Haugova has written a moving book about the farewell of loved ones and the slipping away of one’s own life. Re-encounter and farewells are one in Haugova’s poetry: there…
Miodrag Pavlovic
A generous selection of work by Miodrag Pavlovic. He is the third of the Serbian triumvirate of Popa, Lalic and Pavlovic which transformed Serb poetry in the 1950s. Pavlovic has…
