Burning Tongues by Aleš Šteger, trans. Brian Henry Karen Solie imaginative and technically brilliant of

imaginative and technically brilliant of the Old Norse skalds

The colourful subject of its narrative is a woman who takes one glance at what the early twentieth century has set out for her

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Stamatis Polenakis

its powerful narrative provoked by a tragic opening scene: when soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy

Burning Tongues by Aleš Šteger, trans. Brian Henry Karen Solie imaginative and technically brilliant ofAle teger was born in 1973 in Ptuj, Slovenia, where he grew up, then part of the former Yugoslavia ruled by Tito, which gained its independence when he was 18. He published his first collection at the age of 22, Chessboard of Hours in 1995, and was immediately recognised as a key voice in the new generation of post Communist poets not only in Slovenia but throughout central Europe. Notable for its moral engagement, tegers poetry is acutely precise in