Solar Eclipse 1914 by Arseny Tarkovsky, trans. By Peter Oram Kev Inn The speaker attempts to understand

The speaker attempts to understand her own life through the long history of military wives left to wait and wonder

variation and ekphrasis

There is an exultant celebration of a self that strips off layers of superfluous identity with grace and abandon

' – Jean Binta Breeze MBE

– Ian Seed (about Professions)

Solar Eclipse 1914 by Arseny Tarkovsky, trans. By Peter Oram Kev Inn The speaker attempts to understandArseny Tarkovsky (1907 1989) is considered to be one of the most important Russian poets of the twentieth century, yet his work is rarely encountered outside Russia. This selection of his verse, brilliantly translated in metre and rhyme by the late Peter Oram, aims to make his poetry more widely available to an English language readership while the introduction by two eminent scholars of Russian literature sets it in its wider context.