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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Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Deep Wheel Orcadia is, effortlessly, a first: a science-fiction verse novel written in the Orcadian dialect, it's also the first full-length book in the Orkney language in over 50 years Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind. Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science fiction verse novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventur... continue
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Die K-Gedichte by Robert Gernhardt DE
EstoniaDescription:
2 Gedichtzyklen, in denen R. Gernhardt zuerst seine Krebserkrankung begleitet und verarbeitet (K wie Krankheit, K wie Krebs), dann den Irak-Krieg auf seine Art kommentiert. / Roland Schwarz
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Directions for Use : Selected Poems by Ana Ristović EN
SerbiaDescription:
A rich embroidery of frank sexuality and lyric images from award-winning Serbian poet
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Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin EN
RussiaDescription:
Still the benchmark of Russian literature 175 years after its first publication—now in a marvelous new translation Pushkin's incomparable poem has at its center a young Russian dandy much like Pushkin in his attitudes and habits. Eugene Onegin, bored with the triviality of everyday life, takes a trip to the countryside, where he encounters the young and passionate Tatyana. She falls in love with him but is cruelly rejected. Years later, Eugene Onegin sees the error of his ways, but fate is not on his side. A tragic story about love, innocence, and friendship, this beautifully written tale is a... continue
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Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe DE
GermanyDescription:
Den store tragedien om alkymisten og filosofen Faust er en av hjørnesteinenei tysk - og europeisk - litteratur. Det sentrale motivet er pakten Faust har inngått med djevelen: Faust skal få hjelp til å nå alle sine mål, men han skal miste sin sjel til det onde dersom han fristes til å holde fast ved øyeblikket og glemmer sin sannhetssøken og streben etter erkjennelse.
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Geography for the lost by Kapka kassabova EN
BulgariaDescription:
The voices speaking here - from a Roman housewife to a Chinese bar-owner in Berlin or an Argentine DJ - are the voices of the heart-sick, the culturally jet-lagged, people from photographs, the 'tenants' of lives, cities, and destinies.
Ireland18.
Gypsy Ballads by Federico García Lorca EN
SpainDescription:
Federico Garcia Lorca wrote the Gypsy Ballads between 1924 and 1927. When the book was published it caused a sensation in the literary world. Drawing on the traditional Spanish ballad form, Lorca described his Romancero Gitano as 'the poem of Andalucia...A book that hardly expresses visible Andalusia at all, but where hidden Andalucia trembles'. Seeking to relate the nature of his proud and troubled region of Spain, he drew on a traditional gypsy form; yet the homely, unpretentious style of these poems barely disguises the undercurrents of conflicted identity never far from Lorca's work. This ... continue
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I Have More Souls Than One by Fernando Pessoa EN
PortugalDescription:
Written in the voices of four different alter egos, these verses express a maelstrom of conflicted thoughts and feelings
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If Not, Winter : Fragments of Sappho by Sappho EN
GreeceDescription:
From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a brilliant new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. During her life on the island of Lesbos, Sappho is said to have composed nine books of lyrics. Only one poem has survived complete. In IF NOT, WINTER, Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sappho's verse, employing brackets and white space to denote missing text - allowing the reader to imagine the poems as they were written. Carson says of her method of translation: 'I like to think that, the more I stand out of the way, the more Sappho show... continue