Head On A Gleaming Plate by Marina Tsvetaeva, trans. Christopher Whyte Judith Willson James and Aimé Césaire

James and Aimé Césaire

and described by John Kinsella as a ‘masterpiece’

which made her the first poet to record at Abbey Road Studios

Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck was acclaimed as one of Europe’s most innovative and original new voices in poetry following the publication of her first collection Chameleon in 2015

A poet whose work is infused with a kind of religious ecstasy

Head On A Gleaming Plate by Marina Tsvetaeva, trans. Christopher Whyte Judith Willson James and Aimé CésaireThe poems in this volume were composed between August 1917 and November 1918, and thus they span the most turbulent period of the 20th century in Russia, as the nascent republic was overthrown by the Bolsheviks, and the country descended into civil war. This collection concentrates only on the lyric poems that Tsvetaeva wrote at this time, and their importance should not be underestimated. Each offers a modest, unassuming gateway to the immense world