Exercises 1950–1960 by Yannis Ritsos, translated by Spring Ulmer scottish He now lives in Oxford

He now lives in Oxford with his wife and daughters

’ – John Burnside

Andrew McMillan

every mood and season

Stag's Leap

Exercises 1950–1960 by Yannis Ritsos, translated by Spring Ulmer scottish He now lives in OxfordPublished 1st November 2025. Yannis Ritsos wrote Exercises 19501960 after being tortured and detained during the Greek Civil War. Incredibly, the poems are filled not with bitterness but with amazementat a solitary leaf, a rope ladder, rose and grey light. Alongside such tenderness, of course, the nation state stretches out in the sun, teeth bared. What to say about the human condition? Not long after completing these poems, Ritsos was again