Miroslav Holub was the Czech Republic's foremost modern poet, and one of her leading immunologists. His fantastical and witty poems give a scientist's bemused view of human folly and other life on the planet. "Poems Before and After" covers over 40 years of his poetry. BEFORE are his poems from the 1950s and 60s, poems written before the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, mostly first published in English in his "Penguin Selected Poems" (1967) and in Bloodaxe's "The Fly" (1987). AFTER are translations of his later poetry, all written after 1968, including not only those from his two Bloodaxe editions, "On the Contrary" (1984) and "Supposed to Fly" (1996), but also the entire texts of two late collections published by Faber, "Vanishing Lung Syndrome" (1990) and "The Rampage" (1997). This edition includes translations by Ian & Jarmila Milner, Ewald Osers, George Theiner, David Young, Dana Habova, Rebekah Bloyd and Miroslav Holub.
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He is a magnificent, astringent genius and this volume sings with an oblique and cutting candour, a tubular coolness we must praise again and again. --Tom Paulin
A laying bare of things, not so much the skull beneath the skin, more the brain beneath the skull; the shape of relationships, politics, history; the rhythms of affections and disaffection; the ebb and flow of faith, hope, violence, art. --Seamus Heaney
Miroslav Holub is one of the half dozen most important poets writing anywhere. --Ted Hughes
A laying bare of things, not so much the skull beneath the skin, more the brain beneath the skull; the shape of relationships, politics, history; the rhythms of affections and disaffection; the ebb and flow of faith, hope, violence, art. --Seamus Heaney
Miroslav Holub is one of the half dozen most important poets writing anywhere. --Ted Hughes
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Miroslav Holub (1923-98) was the Czech Republic's most important poet, and also one of her leading scientists. As well as Poems Before & After: Collected English Translations (1990/2006), Bloodaxe publishes The Jingle Bell Principle, a book of his prose pieces, and Supposed to Fly, a highly original and entertaining illustrated gathering of poems with some prose interruptions -- drawn from his native city of Plzen, perhaps better known,for its world-famous beer, by its German name of Pilsen.
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As you know if you've been looking for poetry online by Miroslav Holub, it's not the easiest thing. I bought this book on a whim as I liked a couple of his more well know poems (notably 'The Fly') and I liked his satirical style of writing. This book was a complete surprise, it has over 300 pages of poems (and when a lot are a poem a page/two pages you only need to work out how many are there). There are a couple of short play-like scenes also and the entire thing is arranged in chronological and systematic order so the reader can see how he changes in time. I really am a fan of his works and this book is just brilliant for anyone in the same position, or who likes funny and critical (and beautiful) poetry. Really glad I bought!
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