Jaan Kaplinski
Estonia’s Jaan Kaplinski is one of Europe’s major poets. This selection brings together work from three books previously unpublished in English. These range from the intimate domestic portraits of ‘Evening Brings Everything Back’ to the later poems of ‘Summers and Springs’, in which Kaplinski the public man – Nobel nominee and Parliamentary Deputy – reflects on the role of the individual in the world. The book’s centrepiece is his autobiographical prose-poem ‘Ice and Heather’, an extended exploration of identity and the idea of “home” which is more topical than ever in today’s changing Europe.