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Book SynopsisThe eighth in Arc's New Voices from Europe and Beyond series of anthologies, Six Macedonian Poets features the work of three men and three women – Elizabeta Bakovska (b. 1969), Lidija Dimkovska (b. 1971), Bogomil Gjuzel (b. 1939), Igor Isakovski (b. 1970), Jovica Ivanovski (b. 1961) and Katica Kulavkova (b. 1951) – who have helped to shape the face of contemporary Macedonian poetry over the past five decades.
Translated by a range of highly-regarded translators, and introduced by the editor of Macedonia's leading online literary magazine Blesok, this volume is a window on the poetry of one of Europe's least-known and most intriguing 'corners'.
This is a bilingual edition, with the Macedonian original and the English translation on facing pages.
"Such books - such poets - are I suppose a kind of immigration, welcomed by Arc, voices on the page free to come amongst us. Welcome."
Stride
Igor Isakovski is a poet, prose writer, translator and editor. He was born in 1970 in Skopje, Macedonia. He received a BA in World and Comparative Literature from St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje and an MA in Gender and Culture from the Central European University in Budapest. From 1991 to 2003, he worked as a presenter at various radio and TV stations in Macedonia. He is the founder and director of the cultural institution Blesok, where he works as editor-in-chief.
Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface, Introduction, ELIZABETA BAKOSKA: Biography, The Way You Finally Made Me Leave, Expecting, Reprimanding, Being Alone, Creating, Powerless, I broke into Tears, The Vardar Song, The Bull Who sat for Too Long, My Child, Fogive Me for I Have Done Nothing, The Persian Bride, Complaint of the Generals, Roxanne's Lament. LIDIJA DIMOVSKA: Biography, Decent Girl, Aloa Vera, The Poem at the Beginning, Nail Clippers, Memory, Key, Difference, The Walls, The Poetics of Life, Ripeness. BOGOMIL GJUZEL:Biography, Troy, The Apocolyptic Spring, Vision, Heretic, A Stranger at Home, Breaking Up the Wall, Prometheus's Eagle, An Island on Land, The End of the Century, Professional Poet. KATA KULAVKOVA:Biography,Swarming Bees, Dark Moon, Warm Blood, A Child's Confession, The Great Mother, The Ritual of Perfection, Sunset Above Ohrid: Magic, A Babylonian Tale, A Macedonian Tale, A Dark Age, A Nervous Breakdown: Excess of Reality. IGOR ISAOVSKI:Biography,Alone, Alright, Calm Poem, Sultriness Over Mountain, Water, Bucharest 5.30, How to Write a Poem, Dear Sun, Reclining on Verses, TV Screen & Jim Beam. JOVICA IVANOVSKI:Biography,Doesn't Matter - I Greet Everyone, The Sun Doesn't Matter So Much, Ten Years Ago, After New Year, After Sex, The Woman Passenger, After the Kids Fall Asleep, Divorce, Man, What Legs, She Wants to Lick Ice Cream and Circle the Fountain on Roller Skates in the Twilight Before Going to Work, Funeral. About the Translators and Introducer
