"Without Ritsos' eloquence, Greeks would have forgotten how to name all those things that are there before their eyes." — Pantelis Prevelakis
This long poem is a nuanced and moving account of the poet's time in exile, in which everyday events...
David Malouf once again shows us why he is one of Australia’s most enduring and respected writers.
David Malouf’s new collection comes to rest at the perfect, still moment of ‘silence, following talk’ after its exploration of memory,...
Imagine making poems the way an architect designs buildings or an engineer builds bridges. Such was the ambition of João Cabral de Melo Neto. Though a great admirer of the thing-rich poetries of Francis Ponge and of Marianne Moore, what...
End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound is the deeply personal journal kept by the poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle. 1886–1961) in 1958, the year Ezra Pound was released from St. Elizabeth's in Washington, D.C., and returned to Italy. H. D.,...
The highway became the Red Sea.
We moved through the storm like a sheer valley.
You drove; I looked at you with love.
— from "Storm"
One of the most gifted and readable poets of his time, Adam Zagajewski is proving to be a...
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in imperial Russia during the 1820s, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky...