Shortening the Candle's Wick by Andres Ehin and Ly Seppel, trans. by Ilmar Lehtpere Stephen Watts down-to-earth view of the threats

down-to-earth view of the threats we face today from global warming

Sorrow and death

social class

The edition has two commentary essays: the first primarily concerned with approaches to reading

The Language of Eldorado has been long recognised as an outstanding work of Caribbean poetry

Shortening the Candle's Wick by Andres Ehin and Ly Seppel, trans. by Ilmar Lehtpere Stephen Watts down-to-earth view of the threatsBy turns surreal, political, folkloric and rootedly domestic, Shortening the Candles Wick is a window into the imaginative world of a poetic relationship. For over forty years, husband and wife Andres Ehin and Ly Seppel lived together in Estonia writing poetry. Ehins style is that of the surrealist a connector of the unconnectable whilst Seppel is a poet of the fleeting moment, the glance of language across it. Translator Ilmar Lehtpere has compiled a