Solar Eclipse 1914Arseny Tarkovsky (1907 1989) is considered to be one of the most important Russian poets of the twentieth century, yet his work is rarely encountered outside Russia. This selection of his verse, brilliantly translated in metre and rhyme by the late Peter Oram, aims to make his poetry more widely available to an English language readership while the introduction by two eminent scholars of Russian literature sets it in its wider context.

‘Tospirologist and Teller of Signs’

whose creation of a voice for Jordon Sant is troubling

Vesna Lemaic

Alan Brownjohn

erupt from our minds if only for a moment

The Sunday Tribune

His other books include A History of Jazz in Britain

translated by Charles Cantalupo

It also finds its way in quite different ways into the four commissioned poems that feature

though the handsome

viewed from the stands

• Oliver Reynolds