Head On A Gleaming Plate by Marina Tsvetaeva, trans. Christopher Whyte Judith Willson and described by John Kinsella

and described by John Kinsella as a ‘masterpiece’

Amidst the landscapes of the Peak District and the glaciers of Greenland

structure and style offers their first full collection as a philosophy on life

The poems range across scales of distance

This is what we've been waiting for always

Head On A Gleaming Plate by Marina Tsvetaeva, trans. Christopher Whyte Judith Willson and described by John KinsellaThe poems in this volume were composed between August 1917 and November 1918, and thus they span the most turbulent period of the 20th century in Russia, as the nascent republic was overthrown by the Bolsheviks, and the country descended into civil war. This collection concentrates only on the lyric poems that Tsvetaeva wrote at this time, and their importance should not be underestimated. Each offers a modest, unassuming gateway to the immense world