A Poetry Review Supplement Introduces Contemporary Lithuanian Poets
The spring issue of Poetry Review (Volume 98:10 Spring 2008), The Green Issue, came out together with the a supplement Contemporary Lithuanian Poets, published in association with the Lithuanian Writers’ Union. This most extensive contemporary Lithuanian poetry overview to date, published in UK, presents 10 poets of various generations – Tomas Venclova, Sigitas Parulskis, Kornelijus Platelis, Marcelijus Martinaitis, Antanas A. Jonynas, Eugenijus Ališanka, Vytautas Bložė, Daiva Čepauskaitė, Donatas Petrošius, Donaldas Kajokas – translated by Ellen Hinsey, Liz O‘Donaghue, Jonas Zdanys, Laima Sruoginis and Jayde Will.
Poetry Review is a world class publication and Britain’s longest-running and most prestigious poetry magazine. Started in 1911, it continues to be “the magazine of record” (Michael Schmidt in The Guardian) and as well as being the UK’s bestselling poetry magazine, hailed by Andrew Motion as “required reading”. Poetry Review has been at the forefront of many of the key artistic debates and movements in poetry and has an excellent track record in spotting new talent.
