SONGS FROM THE STEPPES: THE POEMS OF MAKHTUMKULI - Softcover

Aldiss

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007482752 ISBN 13: 9780007482757

Publisher: The Friday Project, 2014

Synopsis

An oddity among Aldiss works - verse translations.

Song from the Steppes is the collected poems of Makhtumkuli, eighteenth century poet-hero of Turkmenistan. In this book, Aldiss renders prose translations made by Dr Youssef Azemoun, an expert on Turkic languages and literature, from the original into verse.

About this title

Review:

'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers.' THE TELEGRAPH

About the Author:

Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story ‘Criminal Record’, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Friday Project
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0007482752
• ISBN 13: 9780007482757
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128