Poetry
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The Volcano
Catalan, Poetry, Translated poetry £12.00
Anna Dodas’ poems communicate, with terrible urgency, both pain and wonder, mystery and absolute clarity, love and dread
The Mouth of Truth
Cornish / Kernewek, Poetry, Translated poetry £12.00
Printing now – available in July
This is a compelling collection, furious and lyrical, which says much about the relationship between the writer and the Cornish nation.
The Blue Line
Basque, Language, Poetry, Translated poetry £12.00
Reprinting – Available mid-January 2022

In this remarkable collection of poems the Basque poet Beatriz Chivite Ezkieta imagines the lives of people she has seen on her travels on the Underground
Seven Songs of Decline
Poetry, The Arts, Translated poetry £12.00
Written at the crossroads of late Symbolism and the avant-garde movements of Futurism and Cubism, Sá-Carneiro’s literature is breath-taking in its originality.
The Name of Things
Poetry, The Arts, Translated poetry £12.00
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen’s poems have all the intensity of childhood memories, but are imbued with an adult awareness of mortality.
The Last Model Pādejais modeļs
Language, Latgalian, Poetry £10.00
The legacy of post-Soviet societies, the historical and contemporary status of women in the region, and visible influences from other literatures and cultures make Latgalian poetry a must-read for all interested in the art of poetry.
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A Speech of Birds
Poetry £7.99
Available now.
A Speech of Birds brings together poems of place and time, tracing the course of a calendar year with its epiphanies and losses.
Parallel Rivers
Catalan, Language, Poetry £12.00
This is joy – to be a bird, passing through the sky where a storm left forceful peace.
This is death – to close your eyes, to hear the silence as when the music begins.
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The Compound Heart
Catalan, Poetry £10.00
In this first Selection of Clementina Arderiu’s work to be published in English, we encounter a Catalan poet who is both classic and startlingly modern.
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Truck Driver Haikus / Haikús del Camioner
Catalan, Poetry £12.00
“A haiku is so short that it gives you no time to reflect. It’s just an impression. I don’t want to talk about grand emotions in a world full of washing machines. No lyrical images. Only punches. ”
– Dolors Miquel
The Ear of Eternity / L’orella de l’eternitat
Catalan, Poetry £12.00
L’orella de l’eternitat / The Ear of Eternity is a striking collection of poetry in Catalan with translations into English, that explores the world of the Catalan exile.
Virgil’s Fountain / Fenten Feryl
Cornish / Kernewek, Cornish Language, Language, Poetry £7.99
A poem in Cornish
Available in April 2019
Tim Saunders has brought us a poem of love and loss in which myth strives to give shape to unbearable memory.
People like us / Seļļizt nemē mēg
Language, Livonian, Poetry £12.00
In People Like Us you will wander through Latvia meeting Livonian characters as they struggle with the burdens and responsibilities of their language and heritage. You will explore ancient lands and lands yet to be discovered.
Unsleeping sphere / L’esfera insomne
Catalan, Poetry, The Arts £12.99
A modern long poem in the tradition of A. R. Ammons, Allen Ginsberg or John Ashbery published in the original Catalan together with English translation by D. Sam Abrams.
The Dictatorship of Poetry
Georgian, Poetry £12.00
This is the first translation into English of a major collection of work by the celebrated Georgian poet, performer and human rights activitist, Zurab Rtveliashvili.
Salt
Catalan, Poetry, The Arts £9.99
The first collection of award-winning Catalan poet, playwright, fiction writer and translator, Ponç Pons’ work to be translated into English.