This is a ground-breaking and ambitious attempt to collect the best of modern poetry from all over the Balkan region in its broadest sense together and in translation to allow access to a huge variety of extraordinary modern writing for speakers of English. Writers from Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Albania, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Rumania, Moldova, Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia have all contributed their work with the help and guidance of Tom Phillips, a writer, poet and translator now residing in Sophia, Bulgaria. This is an amazing and daring venture bringing the very best of modern poetry translated by some of the finest translators across eight or nine languages together into one volume. And this is the second and even more successful version of last year's outstanding debut. With particular focus on the poetyr of Romania and Moldova in this edition there is a feast of unknown and first class writing to be enjoyed by some of the biggest names of Eastern Europe who are hardly known at all in Britain and the English-reading world.
This is a ground-breaking and ambitious attempt to collect the best of modern poetry from all over the Balkan region in its broadest sense together and in translation to allow access to a huge variety of extraordinary modern writing for speakers of English. Writers from Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Albania, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Rumania, Moldova, Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia have all contributed their work with the help and guidance of Tom Phillips, a writer, poet and translator now residing in Sophia, Bulgaria. This is an amazing and daring venture bringing the very best of modern poetry translated by some of the finest translators across eight or nine languages together into one volume. And this is the second and even more successful version of last year's outstanding debut. With particular focus on the poetyr of Romania and Moldova in this edition there is a feast of unknown and first class writing to be enjoyed by some of the biggest names of Eastern Europe who are hardly known at all in Britain and the English-reading world.
Tom Phillips is a poet, playwright and translator now living in Sofia, Bulgaria. His poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, as well as in the full-length collections Unknown Translations (Scalino, 2016), Recreation Ground (Two Rivers Press, 2012) and Burning Omaha (Firewater, 2003). It also features on Colourful Star, the online art/poetry project he runs with the artist Marina Shiderova, and has been translated into Albanian, Bulgarian, Italian, Macedonian, Romanian, Serbian and Spanish. Tom has participated in a number of international literary festivals, including World Poetry Day in Romania, the Aca Karamanov poetry weekend in Macedonia and Sofia Poetics, as well as an Sofia's Poetry on the Metro project. A former translator-in-residence at the Sofia Literature and Translation House, he has translated work by many of Bulgaria's leading contemporary poets. Tom's other work includes the plays No Time For Hope (Bristol, 2017), Coastal Defences (Bristol, 2014) and 100 Miles North of Timbuktu (Bristol, 2013), as well as essays and travel writing about SE Europe.
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