Birdsong on the seabed
By: Elena Shvarts ; translated by Sasha Dugdale.
Contributors: Dugdale, Sasha.; Shvart︠s︡, Elena.
Edition: Russian-English bilingual ed.
Publisher: Bloodaxe
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tarset, Northumberland
Language: eng; rus
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781852247836
Subjects: Shvart︠s︡, Elena ; -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English
Work titles: Poems.
Description: "Elena Shvarts is one of Russia's greatest living poets. Birdsong on the Seabed presents a selection of her most recent poetry. Shvarts has brought out four new collections in Russian since the publication by Bloodaxe in 1993 of 'Paradise': Selected Poems, the first English edition of her poetry and a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. This new bilingual Russian-English selection also includes some poems not yet published in Russia." "The world of Elena Shvarts' poems is strange and grotesque: often the setting is urban, but unrecognisable - towns emptied of the everyday and peopled only by animals, spirits and strange elemental forces. A peculiar religious fervour illuminates these scenes, but her religion is unorthodox and highly individual."--Jacket.
Notes: This collection takes its title from the author's 1995 Russian collection Pesni︠a︡ptit︠s︡y na dne morskom, but contains  poems from that work and other collections, and new poems never before published.

Introd. in English, with table of contents and text of poems in Russian and English.