Forthcoming poetry collections:
Strong in the Rain (Selected Poems) by Miyazawa Kenji, translated by Roger Pulvers
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- World Literature, Poetry, World Literature from Taiwan
Daughters
- by Ling Yü Translated by Nicholas Y. H. Wong Their swimming postures are unique Some foam at the mouth, some angle their feet to the sky But they don’t die In the dauntlessly crashing waves ------From Daughter W Ling Yü’s lyrical and rhythmic poetry invites readers into meditations on feminine roles, family values, and the delicate balance between individuals and society.…
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- World Literature, Poetry, World Literature from China, World Literature from South Asia, World Literature from Taiwan
for now I am sitting here growing transparent
- by Yau Ching 游靜 Translated by Chenxin Jiang Winner of the 2020 Words Without Borders and Academy of American Poetry translation contest for now I am sitting here growing transparent brings together some of Yau Ching’s most resonant poems in a bilingual mid-career retrospective that reveals a writer working at the edges of visibility, language, and belonging. Moving through…
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- Poetry, World Literature, World Literature from Taiwan
Bone Skin Flesh 骨皮肉
- by Yen Ai Lin 顏艾琳 Translated by Jenn Marie Nunes Bone Skin Flesh by Yen Ai-lin, first published in Chinese in 1997, now appears in a bilingual edition with its first English translations by Jenn Marie Nunes. A landmark in contemporary Taiwanese poetry, these poems revel in the feminine-its desires, violences, and contradictions-through language that is visceral, imagistic, and unrelenting.…
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- World Literature, Poetry, World Literature from Europe, World Literature from Japan
Poems 2020: Translation from Russian, Polish and Japanese, Notes and Commentary
- GBP 12.99
- Translation from Russian, Polish and Japanese, Notes and Commentary by Roger Pulvers. THE YEAR 2020 was the year the world turned inward. We may have stayed at home, but this was a time to look deeply inside ourselves to find connections that we carry in us with all people all around the world. ACCLAIMED AUTHOR and translator Roger Pulvers recorded…
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- World Literature, Poetry, World Literature from Japan
The Boy of the Winds
- GBP 12.99
- with other stories and poems by Miyazawa Kenji and works by Mori Ogai, Ishikawa Takuboku, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Dazai Osamu, and Inoue Hisashi. Translation from Japanese and Commentary by Roger Pulvers. MIYAZAWA KENJI remains not only Japan’s most popular and beloved writer of stories for children and adults but a prescient voice for this century on how we can survive and…
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- World Literature, Poetry, World Literature from Japan
The Illusions of Self: Tanka by Takuboku Ishikawa, with notes and commentary
- GBP 10.99
- Tanka by Takuboku Ishikawa Translated from the Japanese, Notes and Commentary by Roger Pulvers. Roger Pulvers' translations - with detailed notes and commentary - of Japan's greatest tanka poet, Takuboku Ishikawa, is now available here for the first time in this volume. Each tanka - a poem that in Japanese has thirty-one syllables - is a microcosm of the human…
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- World Literature, Poetry, World Literature from South Asia
Arise out of the Lock
- GBP 11.99
- 50 Bangladeshi Women Poets in English Translated by Nabina Das and curated by Alam Khorshed "So often South Asian poetry feels to me like a body with severed limbs, all inaccessible to each other. This anthology is both healing of that and a recognition; with the very force of its thought and its omnivorous cosmopolitanism, it will defy every…
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- Poetry, World Literature, World Literature from Europe
Wholly Esenin: Poems by Sergei Esenin
- GBP 13.99
- Translated from the Russian, Notes and Commentary by Roger Pulvers. "If you want to know how Russians feel about their country, read the poetry of Sergei Esenin. "The 'old plank bridge' spans not only eras but centuries; not only one Russia with another, but Russia with the rest of the world." So writes acclaimed author and translator Roger Pulvers about…
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- World Literature, Poetry, World Literature from Southeast Asia
Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring
- Witness poems and Essays from Burma/Myanmar (1988-2021) edited by Ko Ko Thett and Brian Haman Fallen innocents on blood-stained streets. The defiant banging of pots and pans echoing in the darkness. The birth of a springtime revolution amidst the interrupted lives of a country and its people. On the morning of 1 February 2021, a coup d’état was initiated by…
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