Surreal enough to be true, these poems waltz through encounters within families and without. The people depicted are in equal measure brutal and tender, in narratives that are strangely innocent, compelling and convincing. The poems draw on archetype and myth, as well as Russian literary figures, in tightly realised domestic settings that invigorate them with a contemporary relevance, with humour and torment, and, all the while, music.

Author Ilya Kaminsky Published by Faber & Faber ISBN 9780571369188 EAN 9780571369188 Bic Code Cover Paperback