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A Fine Line: New Poetry from Eastern and Central Europe (Arc Translations) - Softcover

Jean Boase-Beier; Alexandra Buchler; Fiona Sampson

 
9781900072977: A Fine Line: New Poetry from Eastern and Central Europe (Arc Translations)

Synopsis


A parallel language anthology, with a preface by Václav Havel, published by Arc Publications in association with the UK-based international organisation Literature Across Frontiers, presenting the new poetic talent from ten Eastern and Central European countries.

The poets included in the anthology are:

Georgi Gospodinov and Nadezhda Radulova (Bulgaria)
Petr Borkovec and Katerina Rudcenkova (Czech Republic)
Kristiina Ehin and Akso Künnap (Estonia)
János Térey and Krisztina Tóth (Hungary)
Karlis Verdins and Sergeij Timofeyev (Latvia)
Daiva Cepauskaite and Rimvydas Stankevicius (Lithuania)
Agnieszka Kuciak and Edward Pasewicz (Poland)
Emilian Galaicu-Paun and Ioana Nicolaie (Romania)
Katarina Kucbelová and Martin Solotruk (Slovakia)
Primoz Cucnik and Taja Kramberger (Slovenia)

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About the Author

Jean Boase-Beier is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Translation. She founded UEA’s MA in Literary Translation and ran it until 2015. Her academic work focuses particularly on translation, style and poetry, and especially on the translation of Holocaust poetry. Recent publications include A Critical Introduction to Translation Studies (2011, Bloomsbury) and Translating the Poetry of the Holocaust (2015, Bloomsbury). Current research, which follows on from a recent AHRC project ‘Translating the Poetry of the Holocaust’ is on the influence of Russian Formalism and Prague Structuralism on the thinking of Benjamin, Celan, Brecht and others. Jean Boase-Beier is also a translator of poetry from and into German and is the Translations Editor for Arc Publications.

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