In Episode 7 of the journey through Romanian Poetry in English we will mee the poet, and cultural revolutionary Tristan Tzara. Born Samuel Rosenstock (16 April 1896 in Romania – 25 December 1963 in Paris) – Tzara is arguably the initiator, or at least a most important catalyst, leader, and practitioner of the anarchist anti-establishment […]

This session deals deals with the poems of the one-man-band of Romanian poetry, as Nicolae Manolescu labelled him, beacuse Arghzei reinvents himesel with every volume and soemtimes within a single volume. I have him in may top 3 Romanian poets. Who is the other one? I will keep that to mysemf. We reprezent four of […]

You can count on one hand the living, poets who are represented with more than one poem in the volume Testament – 400 Years of Romanian Poetry (authors Daniel Ionita – with Daniel Reynaud, Adriana Paul and Eva Foster – Minerva Publishing – 2019). Camelia Radulian is one of them. Her lyrical voice is as […]