(s-a terminat cu poezia: noua poezie romaneasca)

Wednesday 9 May 2007
18.30, Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH
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The Book

‘no longer poetry: new romanian poetry’ is a groundbreaking new anthology of Romanian poetry that presents each poet’s work in the original Romanian and translated into English by the collection’s editors. Since the fall of communism in 1989 Romanian poetry has underdone dramatic changes as writers struggled to reorient themselves and their work in a country where poetry was perceived as a product of the old world. This anthology contains the work of eleven poets from the core of the first post-Communism generation, and showcases their powerful new voices that affirm a very different kind of literary conscience to that of their predecessors.

Heaventree Press are delighted to announce that two of the poets – Elena Vladareanu and adrian urmanov – will attend the launch and read from the collection.

Elena Vladareanu is renowned for her provocative and intense poetry that juxtaposes images of extreme violence and sexuality with everyday, unimportant ‘un-poetic’ events.
adrian urmanov’s more recent writing plays with the notion of poetry as a form of manipulation, unashamedly ‘advertising’ the poet’s message and reshaping his ideas over and over for each of his ‘target readers’.

The Editors

The poet David Morley writes essays, criticism and reviews for The Guardian, Poetry Review and international journals. He has published eight collections of poetry and edited six anthologies of new fiction and poetry, two of which are set texts. He directs the Warwick Writing Programme at The University of Warwick where he develops new practices in the teaching of creative and scientific writing.
Leonard-Daniel Aldea was born in Ploiesti, Romania. His debut collection ‘cannonical flesh’ was published in 2001 and won the Bucharest Writers’ Association debut award. Other publications include utilitarian poems (2003), skeleton (2004) and cheap literature (2005).

The Publishers

Heaventree Press is a not-for-profit West Midlands based independent publisher. Now in the first year of a generous three-year grant from the Arts Council, Heaventree’s other international publications include translated works of Chinese and francophone African poetry, most of which would not otherwise be available to English-language readers.

Publication Details

ISBN: 978-0-954881-15-3
Format: Paperback
Extent: 304pp
Price: £10/€15
Release date: April 2007
Distributors: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN; www.centralbooks.com

Improvisation
this is not a text these are not images this is
not me
this is a mechanism
a white skeleton—sharp bones screw inside you
and i’m telling tell you:
i want to tell you i must tell you
this is not a poem / i am not a poet
i really have something to tell you
i tell you what to do
to breathe the right way—
do what i tell you

— adrian urmanov