Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance by Wioletta Greg, trans. by Marek Kazmierski Helen Vendler people and animals and tender

people and animals and tender elegies - all written with a generosity and confidence that ensure these poems sing in your mind long after you finish reading them'

These lines understand their power to manipulate: 'this is a poem about my mouth / intended to draw attention / to my mouth'

‘the Trent’

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Kenya and India – is both formally sophisticated and impressively diverse

Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance by Wioletta Greg, trans. by Marek Kazmierski Helen Vendler people and animals and tenderOne hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War, the Polish poet Wioletta Greg undertakes a literary journey through her own family history, exploring in both poetry and prose a century of life, death, love and tragedy. With passion, tenderness and humour, she traces a path from the lives of her grandparents in early twentieth century Poland, through two world wars, life under Communism and the subsequent liberation, to her own experiences