Even though Milan Šelj is a translator of poetry from English into Slovene, and has lived in the UK and spoken English on an everyday basis for some time, Tracing the Unspoken is his first book in Eng…
#RivetingReviews: Anna Blasiak reviews PIXEL by Krisztina Tóth
This book offers a very intricate, highly precise collage of images, each capturing something about the times we live in. It shows various versions of the discontent and crises that have become the tr…
#RivetingReviews: Anna Blasiak reviews BLUEPRINT by Theresia Enzensberger
I delved eagerly into this book, excited to have the chance to learn more about the Bauhaus outside of my more usual art-historian context. The book tells the story of a Bauhaus student, Luise Schilli…
#RivetingReviews: Anna Blasiak reviews TIDAL EVENTS. SELECTED POEMS by Mária Ferenčuhová
These are very intimate poems; reading them is like peeping into somebody’s private space or spying between the pages of a diary that was written only for the author herself. There is, therefore, a lo…
#RivetingReviews: Anna Blasiak reviews HAVING NEVER MET by Inga Pizāne
This is the fifth volume in the Periscope series of translated poetry by the New York-based publisher A Midsummer Night’s Press, following One is None by Kätlin Kaldmaa, Anything Could …