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To The Outermost Stars

by Stein Mehren

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 Stein Mehren, Norwegian poet and playwright, writes in the language of the heart, weaving his themes and imagery into a kind of baroque music, in poems that swell and fall like symphonies. Writing on love, desire, and despair he combines classical love stories and intimate expressions of love in daily life to create a tapestry of potent emotions.
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Words Have Frozen Over

by Claude De Burine

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 "The greatest female poetic voice of our time." Rimbaud Revue"Burine's themes are the grand commonplaces of poetry â€" love and time, death and memory â€" and I am grateful for the introduction to her beautiful and intriguing work." Glyn Pursglove, Acumen. Introduction by Susan Wicks. Translated by Martin Sorrell.
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To The Outermost Stars

by Stein Mehren

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 Stein Mehren, Norwegian poet and playwright, writes in the language of the heart, weaving his themes and imagery into a kind of baroque music, in poems that swell and fall like symphonies. Writing on love, desire, and despair he combines classical love stories and intimate expressions of love in daily life to create a tapestry of potent emotions.
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Memorial To The Future

by Volker Von Torne

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 Volker von Torne was the Director of a German charitable organisation for education and reparation in countries throughout the world that have suffered under fascism and other oppressive regimes. His poetry is written from the perspective of someone who suffered through no fault of how own, from terrible guilt after the war.
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Peatlands

by Pedro Serrano

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 These poems are wide ranging and passionate. Linguistically thrilling, they explore the world of snakes, swallows, valleys and skyscrapers, weariness and love. Reading through the eclectic subjects, provokes a sense of searching, a sense of chaos from which ultimately grows a unification of all things
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The Sublime Song Of A Maybe: Selected Poems

by Arjen Duinker

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 Arjen Duinker is one of Holland's highly respected poets with over ten collections to his name, and an array of prizes including the prestigious Jan Campert Prize in 2001. This is a collection of laughter, exuberance, tenderness and the poet's humanity.
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As I Said: Selected Poems

by Lev Loseff

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 These poems are written from across the poet's life, contemplating his native land of Russia from both a literal and a figurative distance, while at the same time casting a sometimes jaundiced eye on the alien culture of America in which he spent the final years of his life. Loseff's poetry excels in complex imagery and rich literary allusion.
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Guests Of Eternity

by Larissa Miller

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 A presentation of poems preceding glasnost' as well as the final decade of the twentieth century. It includes poems from the '70s and '80s which speak about the horrors of the Soviet system, others which comment on purges and torture, and more which convey the struggle to grow and mature with one's soul intact in a world of suffering.
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Silence River

by António Moura

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 Antonio Moura's third collection has the clarity and urgency of a black and white woodcut. A playful collusion of experimental and traditional poetic styles, this collection has both a powerful mythic reach and a bizarre neo-Baroque flavour. Life appears as uncanny, mysterious, something to be faced by the individual.
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As I Said: Selected Poems

by Lev Loseff

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 These poems are written from across the poet's life, contemplating his native land of Russia from both a literal and a figurative distance, while at the same time casting a sometimes jaundiced eye on the alien culture of America in which he spent the final years of his life. Loseff's poetry excels in complex imagery and rich literary allusion.
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Cold Spring In Winter

by Valérie Rouzeau

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 A collection of poems that lament for the poet's dead father in the stammered cadences of an adult and the child she used to be.
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The Scent Of Your Shadow

by Kristiina Ehin

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 Rooted in an ancient folk song tradition, Ehin's poetry is both universal and deeply personal; her language is direct and simple, yet she expresses herself so vividly that her joys and sorrows become the reader's own. These poems, selected from her most recent collection, were written over 2 years, beginning shortly before the birth of her son.
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The Book Of The Snow

by Francois Jacqmin

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 Francois Jacqmin is one of Belgium's most influential poets of the twentieth century. This twelfth collection of his poems is inspired by a bleak and beautiful natural landscape, where the falling snow gives rise to a sequence of 112 short poems which are both lyrical and suffused with irony, allusion and paradox.
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Before The Invention Of Paradise

by Ludwig Steinherr

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 Ludwig Steinherr is one of the most compelling new voices to have emerged in Germany since the late 1980s and this selection - the first to appear in English - from his 10 poetry collections published between 1985 and 2005 reflects the breadth and depth of his writing, ranging from its post-Celanian darkness to its insistence on light.
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At The Edge Of Night

by Anise Koltz

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 A selection from four collections by Anise Koltz.
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Whispers And Breath Of The Meadows

by Razmik Davoyan

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 A poetry from a world, a way of life and a culture unfamiliar to most English-language readers.
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Defying Fate

by Maurice Careme

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 Features poems on subjects including children, silence, death, God, and the troubled mind.
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The Flights Of Zarza

by Fernando Kofman

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 Features a collection of poems that express the divide between the past and the need to move on, the break of the new poetry of the 90s with the politics of the 70s.
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Still Life With Loops

by Eli Tolaretxipi

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 A collection of poems, which are full of physicality, emotion and an enigmatic quality that is both compelling and unsettling.
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Kill The Radio

by Dorothea Rosa Herliany

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 Describes Herliany's writing as revealing "a struggle to understand human experience in all its reality - not as an ideal but as a fact that displays profound suffering and hurt, without, apparently, any hope of redemption." This is a collection of poems published in a bilingual edition and introduced by the British poet.
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Wolf One-Eye

by Juris Kronbergs

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 Presents a cycle of poems in which the protagonist, Wolf One-Eye, finds himself in exile from an ancient mythological landscape in a new realm of quarks and expanding and alternating universes. Dislocated and alone, he travels through totally unfamiliar territory, closely observed by the other voice in these poems, that of the poet / narrator.
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The Fishermen Sleep

by Sabine Lange

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 Explores the human - particularly the female - condition in the light of her personal experiences as a musician and poet, and is set against the backdrop of the beautiful Mecklenburg countryside in which she has spent most of her life. These poems - often about love, music, the seasons, and the landscape - are full of a meditative beauty.
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The Sublime Song Of A Maybe: Selected Poems

by Arjen Duinker

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 Arjen Duinker is one of Holland's highly respected poets with over ten collections to his name, and an array of prizes including the prestigious Jan Campert Prize in 2001. This is a collection of laughter, exuberance, tenderness and the poet's humanity.
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Recycling

by Tadeusz Rozewicz

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 "One of the most powerful recent achievements of the poet who has been called 'the chronicler of the 20th century', and recognised as one of Europe's outstanding artists. I am haunted by the vision of history and politics which I draw from RÃ³zewicz." Tom PaulinIntroduced by Adam Czerniawski. Translated by Tony Howard and Barbara Plebanek.
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