Lungfuls of Silence

This book presents the work of three award-winning young poets from Finland, Pekka Kytömäki, Arto Lappi, and Niklas Salmi. Their speciality is wisdom, poignancy and humour, contained within a poetic nutshell. Thus in the present selection we have poems which in the briefest of compasses (from two to twelve lines) illuminate our own existence, the natural world, and the connection between the two. The English translations are by Donald Adamson, in collaboration with the poets themselves.