Award-winning poet, translator and academic, Jaume Subirana is one of Catalonia’s most treasured poets, winning its most prestigious prizes for his poetry and essays. In an eloquent translation by Christopher Whyte, The Silent Letter showcases Subirana’s sharp observations, delicate eye for detail, stunningly beautiful images, and poignant suspension of the moment.
Tsvetaeva puts her passionate involvement with a woman poet seven years her senior at the heart of these intense and luminous shedding light on life in Moscow during the twilight years of the Empire.
Hailed as her first fully mature book, this collection addresses Blok and Akhmatova, as well as the city Tsvetaeva grew up in, the pre-Revolutionary Moscow she so passionately loved, in poems whose daring, vigour and freshness were rarely to be surpassed in her subsequent production.
Trapped in Moscow through the Civil War with two infant daughters almost impossible to feed, camped out in the attic of the house she and her family had previously occupied, Tsvetaeva produced some of the most brilliant, communicative and heart-rending poems she would ever write.
Thumbnail sketches of the work of twenty poets writing between 1940 and 1990 combine to form an overarching account of poetry in Scotland as the 20th century progressed towards its close.
MacLean’s cycle of love poems, hailed as the fundamental text of Gaelic poetry in the 20th century, is recomposed here in a prizewinning edition with generous commentary and notes.
In Whyte’s debut novel, magical realism hits the already crazed world of Catholic Glasgow in the 1990s, with an archbishop farting uncontrollably, while three virgins prepare for miraculous births in a city convent. An unremarkable statue of the Virgin Mary is prone to fits of laughter.