Against the Light

Tiziano Broggiato

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations | nr. 9
• To read Broggiato, is to discover his devotion to the act of writing poetry that is intense, vibrant and lit from within; where the words resonate wit... Lees meer

Tell Me What Moves You

Phillippe Haeck

• Paperback | Frans | Essential Translations | nr. 47
• Haeck's intensity is such that he needs to use the fragment to complete an on-going project of finding his way to luminosity. Behind a deliberate mode... Lees meer

Ari Et La Reine de l'Orge

Pan Bouyoucas

• Paperback | Frans | Essential Translations
• The title character Ari could have stepped out of a traditional folk tale straight into the day before yesterday. Son of a monstrous, unscrupulous mot... Lees meer

El Zoológico de Dios

Pablo Urbanyi

• Paperback | Spaans | Essential Translations | nr. 48
• God's Zoo captures the brutality of the Second World War in Eastern Europe, told through the eyes of young Fenix, a boy who lives in the small Hungari... Lees meer

Here and Not Elsewhere

Marchi Pietro de

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations | nr. 7
• A bilingual English-Italian collection of poetry from one of Switzerland's widely published Italian-language poets and critics. Lees meer

Wings Folded in Cracks

Jean-Pierre Vallotton

• Paperback | Essential Translations | nr. 14
• More than the macroscopic of the surreal, Jean-Pierre Vallotton explores the microscopic of hyperreality. In fact, if there is one single element that... Lees meer

Things That Fall

Denise Desautels

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations | nr. 2
• In French, Tombeau de Lou. At its origin, the death of the childhood friend, the chosen sister, swept away by a sudden cancer. She was fifty-three yea... Lees meer

Rooms

Louise Dupré

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations | nr. 38
• Rooms is lyrical and meditative, painterly, erotic and philosophical. The book is thematically and structurally a unity, but a unity of many parts, on... Lees meer

Beyond the Flames

Louise Dupre

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations | nr. 19
• A woman, following a visit to Auschwitz, meditates on the possibility -- or impossibility -- of continuing to live, following the killing of millions ... Lees meer

Stones to Harvest / Escarmouches de la Chair

Henry Beissel

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations
• Stones to Harvest/Escarmouches de la Chair, a lyrical cycle of 47 poems, sets out the four seasons in remarkable and very concrete images drawn from t... Lees meer

Date with Destiny

Hélène Rioux

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations | nr. 35
• In this collection of ten short stories, the main characters -- women between the ages of 13 to 88 -- see death appear suddenly in their daily lives: ... Lees meer

Journeys

Nadine Ltaif

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations | nr. 44
• The poet takes us to Carthage; to Andalusia to contemplate its history of Moors, wars and religion; to India where women's lives, past and present, ar... Lees meer

Pondering the Weight of Being

Giorgio Orelli

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations | nr. 30
• Critics include Orelli among the so-called post-hermetic poets, aligning him with one of Italy's most distinctive literary schools: the Linea Lombarda... Lees meer

Directory of the Vulnerable

Fabiano Alborghetti

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations | nr. 25
• The Directory of the Vulnerable is a book in 43 cantos about vulnerable human beings whose feelings and experiences are watched and recorded. By showi... Lees meer

The End of the World Is Elsewhere

Hélène Rioux

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations
• Autumnal equinox. The End of the World sails on the Aegean Sea. Aboard is Marjolaine, a cook who recently lost her job at a greasy spoon. She rubs sho... Lees meer

Portraits of Absence

Fabiano Alborghetti

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations | nr. 39
• Portraits of Absence is poetry of witness, of unflinching eyewitness accounts of atrocities--the devil's definition of humanity. Fabiano Alborghetti's... Lees meer

The Strange Scent of Saffron

Miléna Babin

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations
• Lower Saint-Lawrence, summer 1988. Looking to escape the violent grip of her uncle and twin brother, Nil heads for Le Bic with a half-tamed fox in tow... Lees meer

The Haunted Hand

Louise Dupré

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations | nr. 46
• A woman has her cat euthanized, a decision that causes her to become aware of her ability to kill. She writes, hand haunted by history, and returns to... Lees meer

Images

Louise Bouchard

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations | nr. 26
• In a letter that she writes to a certain Théodore, the narrator in Images evokes a tumultuous period in her life: her adolescence. During this period,... Lees meer

Instead of Whom Does the Flower Bloom

Vlado Kreslin

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations | nr. 6
• Kreslin's poetry is a beautiful aesthetic experience, evocative and subtle, particularly rich in natural imagery. There are clear themes that run like... Lees meer

Cock-A-Doodle-Doo

Pan Bouyoucas

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations
• What to do when your fictional sleuth refuses to die? A detective writer's attempts at writing his masterpiece. A very successful detective fiction wr... Lees meer

A Hunger Artist & Other Stories; Poems and Songs of Love

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations | nr. 20
• Kafka's writings are characterized by an extreme sensitivity manifested in absurdity, alienation, and gallows humor, and these two particular collecti... Lees meer

Flame Out

Michael Delisle

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations
• A portrait of a violent father and an homage to poetry. When Michael Delisle was a boy growing up in Montreal's South Shore neighbourhood of Ville Jac... Lees meer

Portrait of a Husband with the Ashes of His Wife

Pan Bouyoucas

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Translations | nr. 42
• Portrait of a Husband with the Ashes of His Wife addresses themes of destiny and the repercussions of our choices. Before she dies, actress Alma Jonca... Lees meer