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Jaroslav Seifert · 1998 · Czech Republic · poetry
★ 3.93 Goodreads · 272 ratings

A selection from across the Czech poet's work, from the playful avant-garde poems of the 1920s to the late poems of memory, love and Prague.

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District and Circle

Seamus Heaney · 2006 · Ireland 96% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 1,353 ratings
shares: nostalgic, memory, poetry · clear-cut, unhurried

Late poems that move between the farm and forge of Heaney's childhood and the London Underground, with translations and prose poems.

New and Collected Poems

Czesław Miłosz · 2001 · Poland 96% match ★ 4.34 Goodreads · 2,091 ratings
shares: Eastern European, memory, poetry · unhurried, clear-cut

Seventy years of Miłosz's poems, from the Warsaw of the war years to old age in California and Kraków.

Human Chain

Seamus Heaney · 2010 · Ireland 96% match ★ 3.93 Goodreads · 1,489 ratings
shares: memory, poetry, tender · clear-cut, unhurried

Heaney's last collection, written after a stroke, of memory, friendship, his father and the passing on of things.

Platero and I

Juan Ramón Jiménez · 1914 · Spain 94% match ★ 3.87 Goodreads · 11,755 ratings
shares: poetry, tender, classic · clear-cut, unhurried

Prose poems of a poet and Platero, his small silver-grey donkey, walking the streets and fields of Moguer, an Andalusian village, through the seasons of a year.

Collected Poems

George Seferis · 1967 · Greece 94% match ★ 4.32 Goodreads · 452 ratings
shares: memory, poetry, classic · unhurried, clear-cut

Seferis's poems, from Mythistorema to the poems of exile in the war years, in which the islands, the sea and the ruins of ancient Greece stand in for a modern country's grief.

The Carrying

Ada Limón · 2018 · US 94% match ★ 4.35 Goodreads · 10,525 ratings
shares: poetry, tender · clear-cut, earnest

Poems about the body that refuses pregnancy, the small domestic world of horses and fig trees, and what the heart carries forward anyway.

The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz 1957–1987

Octavio Paz · 1987 · Mexico 94% match ★ 4.32 Goodreads · 3,093 ratings
shares: poetry, classic, nobel laureate, love · clear-cut, unhurried

Thirty years of Paz's poems, from Sunstone onward, in Spanish and English.

Collected Poems in English

Joseph Brodsky · 2000 · Russia 94% match ★ 4.38 Goodreads · 1,091 ratings
shares: love, poetry, classic · clear-cut, unhurried

The poems Brodsky translated himself or wrote in English during his years of exile in America.

Map: Collected and Last Poems

Wisława Szymborska · 2015 · Poland 94% match ★ 4.43 Goodreads · 867 ratings
shares: Eastern European, poetry, classic · clear-cut, unhurried

The complete poems of Szymborska's working life, from the 1940s to the poems left on her desk when she died.

Arcadia Borealis

Erik Axel Karlfeldt · 1938 · Sweden 94% match
shares: poetry, classic, nobel laureate · clear-cut, earnest

Selected poems by Karlfeldt, many sung by Fridolin, a learned peasant of his native Dalarna, about the farms, festivals and seasons of rural Sweden.

Barbarian Odes

Giosuè Carducci · 1877 · Italy 94% match
shares: nostalgic, poetry, classic · clear-cut, unhurried

Carducci's poems in the metres of Latin verse, on Roman ruins, Italian landscapes and the passing of time.

Selected Poems

Gabriela Mistral · 1941 · Chile 93% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 560 ratings
shares: poetry, classic, nobel laureate · clear-cut, unhurried

Poems from across Mistral's life, of lost love, motherhood and children, faith and the landscapes of Chile, in Ursula K. Le Guin's translation.