Solar Eclipse 1914 by Arseny Tarkovsky, trans. By Peter Oram Marius Kociejowski mountains are climbed

mountains are climbed

Benjamin Zephaniah

questioning ideas of the porosity of boundaries between the human and non-human and teeming with detail

Manuel Vilas speaks in the voice of bitter experience

David Constantine’s poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world

Solar Eclipse 1914 by Arseny Tarkovsky, trans. By Peter Oram Marius Kociejowski mountains are climbedArseny Tarkovsky (1907 1989) is considered to be one of the most important Russian poets of the twentieth century, yet his work is rarely encountered outside Russia. This selection of his verse, brilliantly translated in metre and rhyme by the late Peter Oram, aims to make his poetry more widely available to an English language readership while the introduction by two eminent scholars of Russian literature sets it in its wider context.