NEW TITLES AUTUMN 1997
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Temporal Stay - Poems
DIMITAR BASEVSKI
Translated from the Macedonian by Brenda Walker with the poet
Introduced by Alan Brownjohn
Basevski is a well-known novelist in his own country,
but this is his first volume of poetry. Alan Brownjohn states
that the poems come from a delicacy and strength achieving a combination
of grave statement and compelling allegory with a remarkable lyric
purity and simplicity. It is rare to find an English translation
of a volume of poetry by a poet from Skopje in Macedonia and
the poems are well worth reading for general interest or for
study purposes.
ISBN: 1 85610 043 X 60 pages 5.95 pbk
December 1997
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People on a Bridge - poems
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Nobel Prize winner Oct 1996
Translated from the Polish by Adam Czerniawski
NEW EDITION
Szymborska is one of the most distinguished living
poets in poland. Her poems have been included in many anthologies,
but in 1990 this collection was the first volume of her poems
to be printed in English in the UK. It was reprinted in a new
edition in November 1996 when she won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
She has range and originality in her themes together
with an ironic wit and a directness and vividness of expression
with which she regards the human race.
ISBN: 0 948259 70 1 96 pages 7.95 pbk
illustrated Dec 1996
In the Shadow of Prague - Biography
OLLY KOMENDA-SOENTGERATH
Translated from the German by Tom Beck
The original German edition won a prestigious Andreas-Gryphus
Prize in Hune 1996. It is a compelling story of what happened
to her in Prague at the end of the Second World War when she was
interned by the Revolutionary Guards at the age of eighteen.
ISBN: 1-85610-041-3 112 pages 7.95 pbk
Dec 1996
Only When the Messengers Come - poems
OLLY KOMENDA-SOENTGERATH
Translated from the German by Tom Beck
DUAL TEXT German / English
Most of these lyrical poems relate to her experiences
in her biography, In the Shadow of Prague. Olly
Komenda-Soentgerath is the winner of many literary prizes including
the GEDOK Prize for Lyric Poetry, and The Culture Prize for Literature,
the latter being endowed by the Free State of Bavaria.
ISBN: 1-85610-040-5 144 pages 8.95 pbk
Dec 1996
Under My Eyelids - poems
OLLY KOMENDA-SOENTGERATH
Translated from the German by Tom Beck
With comments by Jaroslav Seifert
Love poems which show a lyrical intensity much admired
by the Czech poet, and Nobel Prizewinner, Jaroslav Seifert.
“ Their glowing urgency, yet as tender
as the merest touch of a taut spring......"
ISBN: 1-85610-037-5 96 pages 6.95
pbk Dec 1996
Leaving Eden - poems
NADYA AISENBERG
Introduced by Ruth Fainlight
Aisenberg is a well known poet in Massachussetts
and this is her second volume with Forest. These poems won one
of the prestigious Rossley Literary Awards in December 1995.
It is a volume of broad scope and penetrating insights
revealing Aisenberg at her best. Sylvia Kantaris states that we
are fortunate to have access at last to one of America's outstanding
poets, and Olga Broumas and Eleanor Wilner also speak highly of
the poems in Leaving Eden.
ISBN: 1-85610-039-1 96 pages 6.95
pbk Nov 1995
A Juicier Way - poems
MIHAI RADOI
Erotic poems written by the author either in English
or in Romanian, which is not translated.
The honest sexual directness of the English poems
is an element previously unknown in contemporary Romanian literature
as it was strictly censored. These poems startle with sudden
lyricism or with the brute language of the street.
ISBN: 1-85610-042-1 80 pages 5.95 pbk November 1995