Miroslav Holub was the Czech Republic's foremost modern poet, and one of her leading immunologists. 'Poems Before and After' covers over 40 years of his poetry.

A comprehensive guide to writing or reading poetry, by “one of our most lucid and important critics” (American Academy of Arts and Letters). Why does a grea

"A truly moving book." —John Ashbery Jana Prikryl’s The After Party journeys across borders and eras, from cold war Central Europe to present-day New York C

The horrors of the First World War released a great outburst of emotional poetry from the soldiers who fought in it as well as many other giants of world litera