Popular European Poetry Books
Find poetry books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (102)
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Geography for the lost by Kapka kassabova EN
BulgariaDescription:
Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian émigré poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well-travelled poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of history, but they always speak of the many ways to be lost and disoriented: in a place, in the past, in fear, in love, in the very quickness of life. 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. This is what we all ... continue
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Ireland33.
Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters by Nikita Gill EN
Country: Europe / 
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Description:
Empowering life lessons from myths and monsters. Wonder at Medusa's potent venom, Circe's fierce sorcery and Athena rising up over Olympus, as Nikita Gill majestically explores the untold stories of the life bringers, warriors, creators, survivors and destroyers that shook the world - the great Greek Goddesses. Vividly re-imagined and beautifully illustrated, step into an ancient world transformed by modern feminist magic. 'I watch Girl become Goddess and the metamorphosis is more magnificent than anything I have ever known.'
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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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Holy Winter by Maria Stepanova EN
RussiaDescription:
A deeply moving poem about winter and exile, war and the pandemic from "Russia's greatest living poet" (Poetry) and the acclaimed author of In Memory of Memory
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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
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Iltatähti, häälaulu by Sapfo FI
Description:
Maailmankirjallisuuden suurimpiin naislyyrikoihin kuuluva kreikkalainen Sapfo eli Lesboksessa noin 630-570 eKr. Henkilönä hänestä on säilynyt niukasti tietoja; todennäköisesti hän oli aatelissukuinen, naimisissa ja ainakin yhden tyttären äiti sekä kuului naisten ja tyttöjen yhteisöön, jossa jumalien palvonnan lisäksi harjoitettiin runoutta ja tanssia. Sapfon lyriikassa, joka on vaikuttanut vahvasti länsimaiseen runouteen, on keskeisintä rakkaus - niin luontoon, elämään kuin kanssaihmisiin.
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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.