Six Latvian Poets, ed. Ieva Lesinska Hannah Lowe without metaphor or other literary

without metaphor or other literary devices intervening

as well as romantic love

with old loves hanging around in the corners of dark rooms

Courtesy of the artist

poets and musicians’

Six Latvian Poets, ed. Ieva Lesinska Hannah Lowe without metaphor or other literaryIn this second anthology introducing contemporary Baltic poetry, we meet the younger generation of Latvian poets who started writing and publishing after the country gained independence following the disintegration of the Soviet Union of which it had been part for half a century, a generation whose poetics is placed in a wider context by the editor and translator Ieva Leinska and by the leading poet and translator of the older generation Juris