Six Georgian Poets, ed. Gaga Lomidze Julia Deakin these poems are a rare

these poems are a rare gift

Queequeg and Moby Dick himself: he knows what is owed to whales

the ‘dark chamber’ of the title is pierced by memory

of sparkling surfaces that conceal dark undercurrents

from what is not said

Six Georgian Poets, ed. Gaga Lomidze Julia Deakin these poems are a rareFeaturing the work of Rati Amaglobeli, Shota Iatashvili, Gaga Nakhutsrishvili, Lela Samniashvili, Maya Sarishvili and Irakli Charkviani. Translated by Alexandra Bchler, Nia Davies, Donald Rayfield, Adham Smart, and Stephen Watts with Davit Gabunia. Six Georgian Poets brings us the work of the most outstanding literary representatives of what has been dubbed 'the Gagarin Generation". Yuri Gagarin, the first astronaut who died tragically young, was an