Complete Poems by George Seferis Helen Mort These remarkable poems are despatches

These remarkable poems are despatches from the edges of experience: from the remote coast of northern Iceland where tree-trunks and dead whales lie beached

and covers closely relevant historical contexts

a world that is both vulnerable and resilient

’ – Peter Sansom

Tua Forsström

Complete Poems by George Seferis Helen Mort These remarkable poems are despatchesGeorge Seferis is the great Greek poet of the twentieth century, a classic among classics. The formal and thematic versatility of his work, its decisively modern inflections, call Eliots poems to mind: fastidious and expansive in equal measure. Like Eliots deep rooted Modernism, Seferiss never loses touch with the stones and inscriptions of the past. He writes for his and our time, poetically and politically alert: culture can free us or, misapplied,