Shortening the Candle's Wick by Andres Ehin and Ly Seppel, trans. by Ilmar Lehtpere Stephen Watts Helen is as much the

Helen is as much the city of Troy as its famed plains and high walls

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Sorrow and death

with sentences played against line breaks to create constant small disruptions of the expected sense

The Language of Eldorado has been long recognised as an outstanding work of Caribbean poetry

Shortening the Candle's Wick by Andres Ehin and Ly Seppel, trans. by Ilmar Lehtpere Stephen Watts Helen is as much theBy turns surreal, political, folkloric and rootedly domestic, Shortening the Candles Wick is a window into the imaginative world of a poetic relationship. For over forty years, husband and wife Andres Ehin and Ly Seppel lived together in Estonia writing poetry. Ehins style is that of the surrealist a connector of the unconnectable whilst Seppel is a poet of the fleeting moment, the glance of language across it. Translator Ilmar Lehtpere has compiled a