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Hanoch Levin's poetry stands alone as a single volume in his collected works, which run to fifteen volumes of drama and prose. Levin's poetic voice - mordant, witty, irreverent, erotic and highly satirical, yet also whimsical and delicate - is arresting, distinctive and unusual.

Celebrated Icelandic writer Gerdur Kristny's Drapa is a novel-poem which takes its form from Old Norse shield poetry and its mood from modern Nordic crime. But the poem is no fiction: it is about a real woman's murder in the city of Reykjavik, and, through this lens, about all women's deaths. This is Viking poetry at its most contemporary.

On the Edge of a Sword is a selection of Kristiina Ehin's latest work - deeply personal, unflinchingly honest, autobiographical poems which, at the same time, are also a heartfelt defense of the right of the Estonian language to exist and flourish in our increasingly anglicised world.

The late 1980s witnessed two devastating chemical attacks by the Saddam regime on Iraqi Kurdistan. Butterfly Valley is Sherko Bekes' response to these atrocities. Stunned by the world's silence in the face of this genocide, Bekes - in exile in Sweden at the time - longs to go home and mourn the victims.

Every year, people living in our towns and cities - the homeless, suicides, old people living alone - are found dead. Their funerals are held without relatives or friends. In Amsterdam in 2002, F Starik established a network of poets who would write a personal poem for the deceased and read it at their funeral as an affirmation of their existence.

Serbia's rich historical and religious history is evident in these poems and there is an untiring effort to reach beyond the sensations of the world around her towards mystical revelation, to communicate the incommunicable.

Milobedzka's poetry crystallizes relationships between people from erotic engagements to the bond between mother and child. These are poems rooted in the earth and body, beginning in a physical experience that expands into philosophical questioning.

Three of the poets included in this volume established themselves as poets in the post-Stalin Soviet Armenia. Two are partly from the Soviet era, although they have become more visible since the independence. The youngest is a post soviet writer.

Ranging from the mundane to the mythological, from urban to epic, this anthology represents the breadth and complexity of Macedonian literary culture through the multi-vocal, multi-generational perspectives of six of its finest contemporary poets.

Galician poetry has a strong presence in the literary scene in Spain, continuing a centuries-old unbroken line of literacy creation in the language of the region. This collection contains poems chosen by the authors themselves.

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.

This exciting anthology maps a singular encounter between two groups of poets--one based in Bulgaria and the other in England--working together as writers, editors, and teachers to create a diverse body of original poetry and new translations.

Arjen Duinker is one of Holland's most highly regarded poets, with seven collections of poetry to his name, and an array of prizes, including the prestigious Jan Campert Prize in 2001 for the best collection (awarded to his The History of an Enumeration). This is a collection full of laughter, exuberance, tenderness and the poet's humanity, brought alive to an Englishspeaking readership for the first time in Willem Groenewegen's painstaking and sensitive translation. In the words of a Dutch commentator: "e;The poems come right up to the reader, go through his pockets, check the seams and hems of his personality, his essence, his baggage, amiably but determinedly shaking him down."e;

Brings together work from Tony Curtis's six previous books. This work reveals bicycles, famine, ghosts, grannies, Tibetan Buddhists, Beckettian sighs and Lucian Freud's nudes, all with a loving simplicity.

Part of the "New Voices from Europe and Beyond" anthology series, this work brings the work of a younger generation of poets from across Europe to a wider English-language readership. It includes 6 poets all under 40, who (though in different ways) break with, and re-evaluate, the Slovenian literary tradition.

In this title, 20 young poets, two each from the ten Eastern and Central European countries acceding to the European Union in May 2004, are represented, the 'new poetics' from the 'new Europe'. It is a parallel-text volume, with original language/English translation on facing pages.

A selection of Inna Lisnianskaya's work, in a translation by Daniel Weissbort. Lisnianskaya, a lyrical poet, is a love poet, and the love that she and her late husband, the celebrated poet Semyon Lipkin, had for one another colours - without the least sentimentality - many of Lisnianskaya's poems.

An extraordinary collection of sonnets composed while the poet was in solitary confinement and deprived of writing materials in a Vichy prison between December 1941 and February 1942, in a new prize-winning translation.Introduction by Alistair Elliotwith an original introduction byLouis Aragon

"In a time when western culture generates most of its symbols through the distortions of television, Mila Haugová retains the remarkable ability to sing of the symbolic heights and depths of experience. Bold, iconic, and revelatory, these translations do great services to the poems of a major Central European writer." Andy BrownIntroduction by Fiona Sampson. Translated by James and Vera Sutherland.

Meister (1911-1979), whose first book of poetry appeared only months before the Nazis came to power, is a mysterious and strange poet. His work abounds in syntactical and philosophical ambiguity which is perfectly captured in this illuminating new translation of poems drawn from the Collected Poems published at the end of Meister's life. Introduction by John Hartley-Williams. Translated by Jean Boase-Beier.

This collection is bejewelled throughout with haiku-like moments of vivid observation. Her responses-in particular to the natural world- serve to peel away the film of familiarity through which we usually gaze. Yet she combines such excited observation with a quality of restraint, a respect for what she encounters in a process of self-creation.

Capan's poetry manages to sound ancient and traditional while being firmly rooted in today's world; it is both thoroughly Turkish and at the same time European - and beyond that, part of a greater world literature.

This selection from von Toerne's collected poems is particularly significant in that it is a powerful and moving articulation of the psychological burden still carried by countless people today whose voices are not often heard, a burden which von Toerne's powerful, poignant and sometimes angry poetry helps us all the better to understand.

The master of pulsing, post-modern poetic rhythms, Menno Wigman's reputation is assured as one of the Netherlands' leading poets. And as perhaps his country's most exciting poet in terms of form: "a craftsman who knows what he wants" in the words of poet Alfred Schaffer. Wigman's second collection won him the Netherlands' coveted Jan Campert prize.

This anthology, the fourteenth volume in the present series, brings us the work of six leading Georgian poets in what has been dubbed 'the Gagarin Generation'.