The post-Romantic lore of the dissolute drunken poet has fatally skewed the image of poets in our culture
the poems reveal more and more to the active reader prepared to work hard to mine the gold
Kenya and India – is both formally sophisticated and impressively diverse
people and animals and tender elegies - all written with a generosity and confidence that ensure these poems sing in your mind long after you finish reading them'
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Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance by Wioletta Greg, trans. by Marek Kazmierski Helen Vendler The post-Romantic lore of theOne hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War, the Polish poet Wioletta Greg undertakes a literary journey through her own family history, exploring in both poetry and prose a century of life, death, love and tragedy. With passion, tenderness and humour, she traces a path from the lives of her grandparents in early twentieth century Poland, through two world wars, life under Communism and the subsequent liberation, to her own experiences