Night Music is a selection of Bohdan Ihor Antonych's poems rendered into English by British Ukrainian poet Steve Komarnyckyj. Antonych was one of the most gifted European poets of last century. His work has a fevered energetic imagery reminiscent of Dylan Thomas.Steve Komarnyckyj's poetic translations capture much of the febrile inventiveness of this crazy pagan poet and will captivate English readers.

Kalyna Language Press are grateful to English Pen who financed the translation of this book.

The extraordinarily inventive Ukrainian poet and literary critic Bohdan Ihor Antonych  (1909-1937), the son of a Catholic priest, died prematurely at the early age of 28 of pneumonia. Originally from the mountainous Lemko region in Poland, where a variant of Ukrainian is spoken, he was home-schooled for the first eleven years of his life because of frequent illness. He began to write poetry in Ukrainian after he moved to the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv to continue his studies at the University of Lviv. He published just three collections of poetry in his lifetime: A Greeting to...

The extraordinarily inventive Ukrainian poet and literary critic Bohdan Ihor Antonych  (1909-1937), the son of a Catholic priest, died prematurely at the early age of 28 of pneumonia. Originally from the mountainous Lemko region in Poland, where a variant of Ukrainian is spoken, he was home-schooled for the first eleven years of his life because of frequent illness. He began to write poetry in Ukrainian after he moved to the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv to continue his studies at the University of Lviv. He published just three collections of poetry in his lifetime: A...