Popular European Poetry Books
Find poetry books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (51)
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In a Sentimental Mood by Ivana Bodrozic EN
CroatiaDescription:
Ivana Bodrozic's In a Sentimental Mood is emotional, but never woeful, deliberate, yet playful poetry capable of reaching both the highest and deepest registers of expression. From abstract jazz-inspired musings to bedroom intimacies, these poems converse with the idea that being alone is not the worst thing that can happen to a person. To lose your dignity and the dignity of your words - that is the worst thing.
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In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust EN
FranceDescription:
The first installment of the French author's multivolume autobiographical novel, originally published in 1913, in which he recalls his childhood and first infatuation.
Romania24.
Motherfield : Poems and Belarusian Protest Diary by Julia Cimafiejeva EN
BelarusDescription:
A poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and ecological, Motherfield is a poet's insistence on self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus. Julia Cimafiejeva was born in an area of rural Belarus that became a Chernobyl zone when she was a child. The book opens with a poet's diary that records the course of violence unfolding in Belarus since the 2020 presidential election. It paints an intimate portrait of the poet's struggle with fear, despair, and guilt as she goes to protests, escapes police, longs for readership, learns about the detention of family and frien... continue
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Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku EN
AlbaniaDescription:
*Shortlist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize* "Language arrived fragmentary / split in syllables / spasmodic / like code in times of war," writes Luljeta Lleshanaku in the title poem to her powerful new collection Negative Space. In these lines, personal biography disperses into the history of an entire generation that grew up under the oppressive dictatorship of the poet's native Albania. For Lleshanaku, the "unsaid, gestures" make up the negative space that "gives form to the woods / and to the mad woman--the silhouette of goddess Athena / wearing a pair of flip-flops / and an owl o... continue
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New Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Seamus Heaney EN
IrelandDescription:
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career. Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher the prospect of a companion volume to his landmark New Selected Poems 1966-1987 aimed at presenting the second half of his career, 'from Seeing Things onwards', as he foresaw it. Although he was unable to complete a edition/selection, he left behind selections that have been followed here. New ... continue
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Novel and other poems by George Seferis EN
GreeceDescription:
Often compared during his lifetime to T.S. Eliot, whose work he translated and introduced to Greece, George Seferis is noted for his spare, laconic, dense and allusive verse in the Modernist idiom of the first half of the twentieth century. At once intensely Greek and a cosmopolitan of his time (he was a career-diplomat as well as a poet), Seferis better than any other writer expresses the dilemma experienced by his countrymen then and now: how to be at once Greek and modern. The translations that make up this volume are the fruit of more than forty years, and many are published here for the ... continue
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O Paraíso São Os Outros by Valter Hugo Mae PT
PortugalDescription:
"O paraíso são os outros" de Valter Hugo Mãe, ganha nova edição pela Biblioteca Azul com ilustrações do autor inéditas no Brasil. "O paraíso são os outros", uma menina volta seu olhar pueril para os casais. Casais de pessoas e de animais, de homem e mulher, de mulher com mulher, de golfinhos e de pinguins. Uma menina a quem o amor intriga e fascina. Uma menina que ao imaginar a vida dos outros, sonha com a pessoa que um dia irá amar. Sua voz inocente toca tanto as crianças quanto os adultos. A nova edição desta obra do aclamado escritor português Valter Hugo Mãe traz ilustrações do autor e tex... continue
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On the Nature of Things by Lucretius, Martin Ferguson Smith (translator) EN
ItalyDescription:
Martin Ferguson Smith's work on Lucretius is both well known and highly regarded. However, his 1969 translation of De Rerum Natura -- long out of print -- is virtually unknown. Readers will share our excitement in the discovery of this accurate and fluent prose rendering. For this edition, Professor Smith provides a revised translation, new Introduction, headnotes and bibliography. Martin Ferguson Smith is Professor of Classics Emeritus, Univ. of Durham, United Kingdom. Among his scholarly achievements are his revisions of the Rouse translation of De Rerum Natura for the Loeb Classical Library... continue
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Paradise Lost by John Milton EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence A Penguin Classic In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time, populated by a memorable gallery of grotesques. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked, innocent Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and in danger of executio... continue