Six Armenian Poets (New Voices from Europe & Beyond)

The bed-rock of Armenian poetry is a strong and revered folklore tradition that has produced many outstanding poets from the Middle Ages to modern times, both in Eastern and Western Armenia. As the country and its writers opened up to Western modernism, a huge variety of thematic interactions were sparked between traditional Armenian forms and the innovations that Soviet censorship had suppressed. These poems, and Arminé Tamrazian's delicate, sensitive translations, show that sparks continue to fly. Poets include Hrachya Sarukhan, Violet Grigorian, Khachik Manoukyan, Azniv Sahakyan, Anatoli Hovhannisyan, and Hasmik Simonian. This book is also available as an ebook: buy it from Amazon here.The latest anthology in Arc's'New Voices from Europe and Beyond'series features the work of six of Armenia's poets – three men, Anatoli Hovhannisyan, Khachik Manoukyan and Hrachya Saroukhan and three women, Violet Grigorian, Azniv Sahakyan and Hasmik Simonian. Together they have all helped to shape the face of contemporary Armenian poetry.Of the six, Grigorian and Hovhannisyan originally began writing in the age of Stalin, only becoming more visible and appreciated since independence. Saroukhan, Sahakyan and Manoukyan established themselves in post-Stalin Soviet Armenia, while the youngest poet, Hasmik Simonian, is a writer of the new Armenia, out of the shadow of the Soviet past. This is a bi-lingual edition, with the Armenian original and the English translation on facing pages.Razmik Davoyan is the unofficial Armenian poet laureate, and recipient of the President's Prize for Literature (2003). Widely published in Armenian, Russian and Czech, his collections in English are Selected Poems (Macmillan, 2002) and Whispers and Breath of the Meadows (Arc, 2010). Six Armenian Poets, the tenth volume in this series, features six poets whose work shows the range and depth of poetry in Armenia since the departure of Soviet rule. Three of the poets included in this volume, Hrachya Saroukhan, Azniv Sahakyan and Khachik Manoukyan. established themselves as poets in the post-Stalin Soviet Soviet Armenia. Violet Grigorian and Anatoli Hovhannisyan are partly from the Soviet era, although they have become more visible since independence. The youngest, Hasmik Simonian, is a post-Soviet writer. The bed-rock of Armenian poetry is a strong and revered folklore tradition that has produced many outstanding poets from the middle ages to modern times, both in Eastern and Western Armenia. As the country and its writers opened up to Western modernism, a huge variety of thematic interactions were sparked between traditional Armenian forms and the innovations that Soviet censorship had suppressed. These poems, and Armin Tamrazian's delicate, sensitive translations, show that sparks continue to fly. Three of the poets included in this volume established themselves as poets in the post-Stalin Soviet Armenia. Two are partly from the Soviet era, although they have become more visible since the independence. The youngest is a post soviet writer. The latest anthology in the 'New Voices from Europe and Beyond' series features the work of six of Armenia's poets - three men and three women. Together they have helped to shape the face of contemporary Armenian poetry