Nicol Hochholczerová’s striking debut novel, This Room is Impossible to Eat is part fairy tale, part allegory, and one of the realest stories you’ll ever read. With effortless prose that is as beguiling as it is lucid, Hochholczerová captures the dynamics of abuse in a way that few novels, or
Yuri Andrukhovych, for many years now, has been contributing to the Ukrainian literary canon and placing Ukrainian literature on the global stage. From poems to essays to novels, the body of Andrukhovych’s work is thoughtful, imaginative, and experimental. Set Change, a compilation of Andrukhovych
Olena Boryshpolets is a writer, poet, journalist, and culture manager. Like many Ukrainian creatives, when the full-scale invasion began in 2022, Boryshpolets went to Poland, where she worked with other Ukrainian women to inform European audiences about the war. Her poetry collection, Orpheus and Eu
Ivan V. Lalić is counted among the most important twentieth-century poets from Yugoslavia. This is his fifth book in English, but all his earlier publications are now out print, so the Bloodaxe collection provides a chance for some new readers to discover his verse. The volume consists of some prev
Pia Tafrdup is one of the most important contemporary Danish poets, author of over twenty collections of verse, which are often organised into themed series. Her latest is a sequence of five books on human senses, Senses Quintet (2014-2022). The first two parts of the quintet, The Taste of Steel and
In this moving and superbly inventive poetry collection, Anna Blasiak traces her memories of growing up queer in Poland and of attaining her full identity in England, her home for the past twenty years. Her deep scrutiny of personal experience makes for a remarkably powerful handling of her poems’
