Beasts (translated from the Latvian, Zveri) takes the perspective of the educated and curious city dweller who ventures into the natural world.
Translated by Jayde WillBeasts (translated from the Latvian, Zveri) takes the perspective of the educated and curious city dweller who ventures into the natural world. Krisjanis Zelgis focuses on the intriguing unpredictability of wild beasts to explore human nature, relationships, fear and love. His poetry is dark, sometimes angry, often funny, capturing the entirety of the natural world in honest but delicate detail.Beasts is part of the Parthian Baltic project which was launched on time for the London Book Fair 2018.
Daugiau informacijos
Beasts is part of the 'Parthian Baltic' project. The project was launched at the Parthian poetry festival at the Wheatsheaf and the London Book Fair 2018 (focus region: Baltics).
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I don't know what's depicted there |
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My brother is leaning on a chest of drawers |
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In the night a dog came and sat: next to us |
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It turns out the fields begin already at the end |
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A bittern a chiffchaff and a common dunlin |
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I counted the dead while looking out the window |
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While I was asleep at the wheel |
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I fell asleep near the lake on her towel |
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Between the cinnamon and the coffee |
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I'm at home but there's no electricity |
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The morning chill gets up with us |
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The basis of our relationship is a table |
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We were heading to the station Belorusskaya |
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Kids like that don't sleep long in the morning |
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I didn't want him to start talking |
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I'm not giving you my shirt |
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Time has stopped and it isn't love |
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Your fuck you in your text message |
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Everything smells like urine |
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After uni you will go back to your hometown |
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I had to travel for two full weeks |
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I would like my children to see what i do |
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He will pick me up I cannot drive |
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I work in the Romanian embassy |
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The printing house has its own events |
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The lights went out in the hall |
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There will be fruit juice for breakfast |
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There were four days I don't remember |
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Such a wide crossing with a beeping sound |
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A plummeting plane which loses a wing |
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I accidentally got off the train to Minsk |
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The bamboo plants brought outside for summer |
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There isn't any time here |
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In '88 my life turned upside down |
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Like vegetables that have travelled more than us |
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With scrupulous precision the cold |
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I'm afraid I don't know these people |
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Krisjanis Zelgis is one of a new generation of Latvian poets looking ou to the wider worlds. He has been a locksmith, baker, librarian, and a brewer. This diversity in experiencing the tangible world has allowed a wide and rich view of life to inform his writing. Even though he is an author of just two collections of poetry, his poems have been published in various magazines, literary periodicals, and web-publications since 2003. His first collection All Those Things/Visas tas lietas was published in 2010, well received, and nominated for several awards.
