time to appear yo the hour is super nigh by Sveta Grigorjeva
frankenstein’s monster is back and now polyamorous aromantic eco-sexual more interested in periwinkles than in the third pension pillar nuclear family or content creation they proclaim you can be a freak too you can be a monster too
Susurrus and other poems by Triin Paja
youth whispers: your power leaves you as I leave you— as if now we must always stand below the night’s piano shawl. a woman says: rose, grow into a rowan or a raven— meaning the body holds firmly to its secret.
Echoes of the North: Rein Sepp and Estonia’s Quest for Mythic Nordicness by Mart Kuldkepp
Two main factors contributed to the special significance of Rein Sepp’s Edda translation. The first and foremost among these was the atmosphere of hopelessness in the Soviet 1970s and 1980s, when its economy, reliant on oil exports, struggled under the strain of the arms race with the United States. The consequences of stagnation were felt…
My Poor Love and the Garden Bed by Gregor Kulla
i’m built different stinky there’s loser in me too smile a frozen winner’s smile no one wants to pick off a tree a rotten smile full of wasps everything’s buzzing it’s so hot i order a mezcal with ginger beer and lay my puzzy behind a low table time undulates below
Étude by Vaino Vahing
Ilona was gone for a long time. I even thought about throwing a tantrum and leaving, abandoning her coat and a rouble. But I decided to wait and see what would happen. She returned laughing loudly. She must have had something funny to tell me.
In a Dream I Saw the World by Doris Kareva
As though composed in another time and another dimension, Doris Kareva’s verses, in their dense brevity, offer an intense aesthetic experience, triggering in the reader a powerful and rarefied emotion—like the light of the North.
