Translated from Latvian by Ieva Lešinska
Published 2019. Paperback, 122pp, 9 x 6ins, £12.95 / $20
ISBN 9781848616745 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]

Čaks (1901–50) is Latvia’s leading mid-20th-century poet, an early adopter of modern literary tendencies from wider Europe, and one of the first really urban poets in the Latvian language – until his eruption onto the scene, Latvian poetry had been grounded in rural life, reflecting the preponderance of Latvian speakers in the countryside, compared to the large German- (and later Russian- ) speaking population in the cities. His first book appeared in 1928, and he threw himself into the Riga literary scene by creating a magazine devoted to younger writers. He made a living by teaching and through magazine journalism. This is the first book devoted to his work in Britain.

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