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 CARAVAN LULLABIES by Ilzė Butkutė
I keep staring at the titles of Ilzė Butkutė’s two poetry collections – Caravan Lullabies and Carnival Moon – and I’m evermore sure that the alliteration cannot be accidental. The words mirror each ot…
#RivetingReviews: SEVEN STONES by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Often, without much thought (and quite insensitively), we consider other cultures to be intrinsically different from our own; we imagine our communities as divided from each other by huge crevices tha…
#RivetingReviews: THE GREEN CROW by Kristīne Ulberga
Reading this book is like plunging head-first into deep water. You don’t know what awaits – either in the depths, or even right under the surface. You quickly learn, however, that you should expect an…
#RivetingReviews: NIEWAŻKOŚĆ by Julia Fiedorczuk
Julia Fiedorczuk, ELNet’s recent guest at one of our Euro Stars events, is known principally as a poet and a critic who popularised the idea of ecopoetry. She has published five collections of poems i…
#RivetingReviews: THE ANGELS DIE by Yasmina Khadra
We meet the protagonist and narrator of Yasmina Khadra’s The Angels Die just before his execution. Turambo is an Algerian Arab living under French colonial rule in the 1920s. He lived in stark poverty…