Exercises 1950–1960Yannis Ritsos Yannis Ritsos wrote Exercises 19501960 after being tortured and detained during the Greek Civil War. Incredibly, the poems are filled not with bitterness but with amazementat a solitary leaf, a rope ladder, rose and grey light. Alongside such tenderness, of course, the nation state stretches out in the sun, teeth bared. What to say about the human condition? Not long after completing these poems, Ritsos was again imprisoned.

Will Harris attempts to reckon with the past while mourning what never existed

She likes explication

and his deeply affecting acceptance of death

Milo Wippermann

Editor Christopher Reid draws from both public and private archives to reveal this story in the poet's own words

zetten de tijd stil

and short texts authored by other Black feminist groups in the Netherlands

resonant with the sorrows of love and loss and the tragedies of war

H ter Balkt

direct and beautifully tuned

Kissing Other People or the House of Fame opens with a sequence of poems that roam the grotty

Farnoosh Fathi's poetry has been admired for its "riot of associations and sonic improvisations" (Christine Hume