He made his debut as child prodigy Loris, and very early on, at about twenty years of age, Hofmannsthal found his style in poetry. The famous poems that form the core of his ultimately small lyrical oeuvre, which is presented here in a selected edition, were composed in the mid-1890s.

In the course of his life Goethe wrote more than three thousand poems, apparently easy to understand, but also those of the highest linguistic and metaphorical complexity, poems in song-like strophic forms, in strict ancient meters or rhymeless poetry. With this lyrical work, which is exceptional in scope and importance, he actually created the German-language poem of the modern age.

The book by Natalka Bilotserkivets, one of the most important contemporary Ukrainian poets, includes poems from all her collections: ‘Ballad of the Unconquered’ (1976), ‘In the Country of My Heart’ (1979), ‘Underground Fire’ (1984), ‘November’ ( 1989), ‘Allergy’ (1999), ‘Central Hotel’ (2004). This is the author's most complete selection to date.

Ivan Drach (1936-2018) is a recognized leader of the sixties, who, with the inspiration of a juggler, twisted into one poetic orbit the golden bulb, and the theory of relativity, and synchrofazotrons wailing like lions, and washed pants, and the Communist Party, and a touching old lady, and Lenin's fanfare, and the lost cinematogram, and Chernobyl, and Rukh, and spirit, and Stanley Kunitz, who...

This selection from his extensive lyrical work enables many discoveries and allows you to experience how Rilke ‘made the German poem perfect for the first time’ (Robert Musil). With a compact biography of the author.

This is a book of poems that captivated numerous readers around the world. These poems not only penetrate the soul, but also penetrate the inside. They leave through holes in the mind, through which reality shines through, from which you want to hide your hands.

Vasyl Symonenko (1935–1963) is a poetic legend of the ‘sixties’ as a social and artistic movement. His poems were not allowed to be printed by Soviet censorship, so they were distributed in self-published lists and copied by hand - by teachers, professors and farmers.

Petersburg! What glory this city is covered with! For hundreds of years it has captivated poets with its fogs and winds, courtyards-wells and granite shores. ‘The city of fogs and dreams,’ a habitat for shadows of the past and images of the future, hiding in the arches. The city of uncertain lights and heavy, cloudy skies: a strange and inspiring northern capital. The collection ‘Russian Poets...

'39 poems about the war that no one declared, the pain that no one can handle, the love that no one can refuse, and the hope that everything rests on.' Serhiy Zhadan.

Poems at the turn of the era often lose their autonomy and increasingly resemble diaries. What can be found in Serhii Zhadan's new poetic diary? 50 and 1 poem, written before and after the big bang, brought together, united by a sense of language that so painfully disappears, but then inevitably returns. Stringed on the string of the voice, dependent on the sound, they, these poems, remain a...

Brechts Gedichte über die Liebe vereinen bisher verschlossen gehaltene erotische Gedichte mit bereits bekannten Gedichten. Zarte Gebilde wie »Vom ertrunkenen Mädchen« und »Die Liebenden« stehen neben Gedichten, denen das Vulgäre und Obszöne, das Sexuelle und Grobe nicht fremd ist.