Life on Mars is Anna Blasiak’s response to I Can’t Remember My Future Name by Ilzė Butkutė, translated by Rimas Uzgiris, which made Anna think of the “American
Hilary Dyer‘s The Pictures was written in response to an excerpt from Plague Grave (“Katkuhaud“) by Ene Mihkelson translated by Christopher Moseley. The poem has
Scored with a Moon is Lydia Harris‘s poem written in response to Doris Kareva’s *** (A house by the sea; translated by Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov) and Madara Gruntman
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 ind
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 desp
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 l
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
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
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 choo
In this, her memoir, Valentīna Freimane talks about pre-war Paris and Berlin, about legendary film stars she has seen close up, and about regular trips as a teenager from Riga to
