Translated from Russian by Alistair Noon
Published 2022. Paperback, 106pp, 9 x 6ins, £10.95 / $18
ISBN 9781848618367 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Parallel to his more famous poems about the buildings of St. Petersburg, the shores of the Black Sea, and the streets of Voronezh, Mandelstam wrote many brief, spontaneous poems about his friends, enemies and everyday occurrences over his entire writing life. Though his poetic, political and personal trajectory was to be a lonely one, he in fact had a convivial and gregarious personality, of which these poems are a product. This volume collects them in English for the first time, with an introduction and notes for context. It provides a fresh perspective on this poet whose sense of the past, the present and the future seems second to none.
Alistair Noon’s translations of Osip Mandelstam, Concert at a Railway Station: Selected Poems , appeared from Shearsman Books in 2018, with two further volumes in 2022 – the current volume and The Voronezh Workbooks . His own poetry has appeared in two collections, Earth Records (2012) and The Kerosene Singing (2015), both from Nine Arches Press, and a dozen chapbooks from various presses. He lives in Berlin.
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