In Secret: Versions of Yannis Ritsos

Awards:   Commended for Poetry Book Society (PBS): Choice - Winter 2012 Commended for Poetry Book Society (PBS): Choice - Winter 2012.
Author:   Yannis Ritsos ,  David Harsent
Publisher:   Enitharmon Press
ISBN:  

9781907587214


Pages:   79
Publication Date:   16 October 2012
Format:   Paperback
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In Secret: Versions of Yannis Ritsos


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  • Commended for Poetry Book Society (PBS): Choice - Winter 2012
  • Commended for Poetry Book Society (PBS): Choice - Winter 2012.

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Winner Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Winter 2012. Yannis Ritsos (1909 - 1990) is one of Greece's finest and most celebrated poets, and was nine times nominated for a Nobel Prize. Louis Aragon called him 'the greatest poet of our age'. He wrote in the face of ill-health, personal tragedy and the systematic persecution by successive hard-line, right-wing regimes that led to many years in prison, or in island detention camps. Despite this, his lifetime's work amounted to 120 collections of poems, several novels, critical essays, and translations of Russian and Eastern European poetry. The 1960 setting, by Mikis Theodorakis, of Ritsos's epic poem Epitaphios was said to have helped inspire a cultural revolution in Greece. In Secret gives versions of Ritsos's short lyric poems: brief, compressed narratives that are spare, though not scant. They possess an emotional resonance that is instinctively subversive: rooted in the quotidian but, at the same time, freighted with mystery. The poems are so pared-down, so distilled, that the story-fragments we are given - the scene-settings, the tiny psychodramas - have an irresistible potency.

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Author:   Yannis Ritsos ,  David Harsent
Publisher:   Enitharmon Press
Imprint:   Enitharmon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.113kg
ISBN:  

9781907587214


ISBN 10:   1907587217
Pages:   79
Publication Date:   16 October 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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'Harsent is one of those rare poets whose work commands attention outside the poetry world' THE GUARDIAN


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David Harsent has published ten collections of poetry. Legion won the 2005 Forward Prize for Best Collection. His most recent collection, Night, published by Faber in 2011, was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize, the Forward Prize, the T.S. Eliot Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize.

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