ichard Berengarten has made the long poem and the sequence his forte, and many of these poems have received international acclaim. Through his choice of themes and motifs, and his affirmation of psyche, eros and hope, he writes in the tradition of George Seferis and Octavio Paz. This selection (1965-2000) includes 'Avebury', 'Angels', 'Tree', 'Against the Day', 'Croft Woods', and the widely acclaimed sequence 'Black Light'.

Imagems 1 contains six statements by a European poet who challenges modernism and post-modernism alike and extends (beyond) both. Richard Berengarten takes as his twin cues a statement by Octavio Paz, "For the first time in our history we are contemporaries of all humanity", and a short poem by George Seferis.

The Croatian poet Augustin (Tin) Ujevi (1891-1955) is one of the finest Southern Slav lyric poets and one of the great poets of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. While Tin Ujevi 's poems are hardly known in English, they are loved in his native Croatia and throughout former Yugoslavia. At least until the break-up of the Yugoslav Federation, many of Tin's lyrics were known by heart and quoted by people all over the country, even those who weren't particularly literary, in much the same way as some of W.B. Yeats's early poems, like 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree', 'He Wishes for...

Imagems 2 contains six statements by a poet who continues to challenge modernism and post-modernism alike. This chapbook complements and elaborates Richard Berengarten's Imagems 1 (2013). In this sequel, the borders between poetic theory and practice blur, for some of these texts are prose-poems in themselves. While their themes are rooted in the here-now, their 12-point structures call to mind early 20th century manifestos and late 20th century memoranda. Themes include the birth of poetry in sound, breath, and inner speech; the interdependence of the universal and the particular; and...