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The best poetry books of 2021 so far


The best poetry books of 2021 so far
The most interesting recent poetry collections travel the world, from Welsh churches to refugee camps in Lebanon, via a Romanian orphanage
Maria Stadnicka s latest collection is Buried Gods Metal Prophets
Credit: Maria Stadnicka/Guillemot Press
Buried Gods Metal Prophets by Maria Stadnicka ★★★★☆
Welcome to “the Sputnik Wing for irrecoverables”, St Joseph’s Orphanage, Romania, where the state is doing all it can to cover up the true nature of the “irrecoverable” children’s condition.
Between 1987-1991, at least 10,000 in Romania’s overcrowded orphanages were infected with HIV, believed to be caused by dirty needles used in vaccinations. In the poems of Buried Gods Metal Prophets, we witness this tragedy mainly through the eyes of two young children known only as “Bed 27” and “Bed 28”. ....

United States , United Kingdom , North Walsham , Brecon Beacons , Perduta Gente , Carn Gogh , Emily Dickinson , John Keats , Peter Reading , Geoffrey Hill , Rushika Wick , Maria Stadnicka , Yousifm Qasmiyeh , Abeer Ameer , Buried Gods Metal Prophets , Sputnik Wing , Morning Drill , Father Michael , United Kingdom Based Romanian , Gods Metal Prophets , Broken Sleep , Earliest Witnesses , Last Witnesses , Ely Cathedral , ஒன்றுபட்டது மாநிலங்களில் , ஒன்றுபட்டது கிஂக்டம் ,

Reflections: Reading in the present tense


Anecdotal evidence suggests that, locked down, locked in, more people have had time to read more books than ever before. Many booklovers, passionate about their own favourite books, are curious to know what writers have been reading during this lonely period. What was already on their shelves; what did they borrow, buy or read online?
In this series, Reading in the present tense, a range of writers and other creative artists reflect on texts that moved them, intellectually engaged them, frightened them or made them laugh. The chosen text can be something recently published or a cherished book re-read with a fresh perspective. It can be a book written at any time, from any country and in any language if also translated into English. ....

United States , Homyel Skaya Voblasts , South Africa , Sankt Peterburg , South African , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Zoya Mazharova , Iya Viktoria Miroshnichenko , Jemma Kahn , Leonid Sivakov , Rustum Kozain , Aleksandr Terekhov , Neo Muyanga , Mark Heywood , Jean Pierre Dardenne , Kantemir Balagov , Imraan Coovadia , Masha Vasilisa Perelyygina , Svetlana Alexievich , Raya Ilyinkovskaya , Vera Zhdan , Coordination Council , Random House , Red Army , Critical Times ,

The Best Translated Books You Missed in 2020


The Best Translated Books You Missed in 2020
As we approach the end of 2020, we’ve been speaking with translators, critics, publishers, writers, and booksellers about outstanding books in translation that readers might have missed this year. Read on for recommendations from Daniel Hahn, Maya Jaggi, Meng Jin, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, Boyd Tonkin, and more.
 
Ulysses and 
Mrs. Dalloway, this book, first published in Hindi in 1963, traces the experiences of a flaneur wandering through a city over the course of a single day, recording his experiences, memories, reflections, and emotional reactions to the world around him. The setting is the city of Jalandhar in 1930, an era of rapid change as India launched forward, fusing elements of its long, rich past with modern ideas and cultural elements to form a new, hybrid culture, amplified in all of its complexity by the country s dazzlingly complex multiethnic and multilingual nature.   ....

New York , United States , Puerto Rico , By Nino , Vladimirskaya Oblast , Israel General , Georgia General , Royal Society , Arkhangel Skaya Oblast , Larissa Volokhonsky , Leesa Gazi , Ruth Martin , Leo Tolstoy Anna , Keith Gessen , Ann Goldstein , Daisy Rockwell , Michael Joseph , Jennifer Shyue , Mansi Yousif Bastawrous , Elena Ferrante , Jeff Waxman , Svetlana Alexievich , Rachael Daum , Maya Jaggi , Leesa Gazi Bangla , Judith Schalansky Aninventory ,