Since 1960 at least 320 individual translations into English from the three Baltic countries have been published. In other words, a minimum of 320 books of poetry and prose, by individual writers and as anthologies, have been published in English translation from Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian. Th
She loves so demandingly wanting to prove she isn’t a mistake on the map of the world sticking her stories into the cracks of the house’s fissured wall She demonstrates so desperately that she is good She traces protective symbols on scarred faces promising eternal success and immortality She le
while I was asleep at the wheel and hit a deer you were all sitting in the back reeling off jokes and telling stories of the comical misunderstandings during your trips it seemed like a dream until your brother called me and said that I’d have to pay for the paint job light cheerful music [&hellip
It was on a publishers’ visit to Latvia in 2015 that we at Arc Publications first encountered Orbita. Intrigued by this group of Russian-speaking Latvian poets who appeared to be working completely independently from what was happening elsewhere in the Latvian poetry scene, Tony Ward, Arc’s foun
Inga Žolude’s Stories are about how we observe ourselves and others, and how we interpret those observations to transform our experiences, both as writers – as many of Žolude’s character are – and as human beings. Žolude’s prose is rich with both outward imagery and inward introspection
In Moon Theatre, Ieva Melgalve creates a dark world of actors playing roles in a perpetual soap opera, their lives taking whatever path the mysterious and unseen scriptwriters choose for them. Order in this world is kept by a backstage crew of mimes, AI androids who remain in the wings to keep the a
