Focused on poetry written in the languages and traditions of Eastern Europe and areas formerly under Soviet control, the Eastern European Poets Series has cast a light on overlooked, iconoclastic, outsider poets, historically significant figures, and lesser-known poetic movements, allowing Anglophone readers a broader view of the area’s literary history, evolution, variety, and contemporary flowering.
Founded in 2002, the series was published as an imprint of Ugly Duckling Presse for twenty years before moving to World Poetry Books along with its editor, Matvei Yankelevich, in 2022. At World Poetry, the series has continued to expand its scope with new translations from Croatian, German, Polish, and Romanian. Due to World Poetry’s translation-specific mission, the series no longer publishes poetic works written directly in English by émigré authors, but rather focuses exclusively on translations from the languages of Eastern Europe, broadly defined.
In 2027, World Poetry will celebrate 25 years of the Eastern European Poets Series with the launch of three books by dissident and underground Russian authors, an expansive anthology of Ukrainian poetry, new editions of seminal backlist titles, as well as author tours and events.
To contribute to the series’ 25th-year fundraising campaign, please see here.
You can support a forthcoming EEPS title of your choice with a sponsorship level donation at any time, or support the series as a whole with a lifetime subscription. For more information, please write directly to the editor (editors [@] worldpoetrybooks.com).
To submit book proposals to the series, please see the Contact page for our submission window and guidelines.
LIST OF EEPS TITLES
58 A Ukrainian Century: Poems 1900–1999
Ostap Kin and Ainsley Morse (eds.)
57 Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov
Fifty Drops of Blood (second edition)
56 Yan Satunovsky
Prosthetics Factory: Selected Poems
55 Dordzhi Dzhaldzhireev
Beyond Salvation
54 Dmitri Kuzmin
Legit Target: Selected Poems
53 Dan Sociu
Deep Fakes: Selected Poems
52 Vlado Martek
Pre-Poetry
51 Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
Song of the Yellow Asters
50 Anna Malihon
Girl with a Bullet: Selected Poems
49 Zuzanna Ginczanka
On Centaurs & Other Poems
48 Witold Wirpsza
Apotheosis of Music: Selected Poems
47 Polina Barskova
Air Raid
46 Galina Rymbu
Life In Space
45 Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov
Soviet Texts
44 Vasilisk Gnedov
Alphabet for the Entrants
43 Artis Ostups
Gestures
42 Jure Detela
Moss & Silver
41 Marina Tsvetaeva
Letter to the Amazon
40 Igor Kholin
Kholin 66: Diaries and Poems
39 Andrei Monastyrski
Elementary Poetry
38 Written in the Dark:
Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad
(Polina Barskova, ed.)
37 Hit Parade: The Orbita Group
(Kevin Platt, ed.)
36 Vladimir Aristov
What We Saw from This Mountain
35 Miloš Djurdjević
Morse, My Deaf Friend
34 Natalie Lyalin
Blood Makes Me Faint But I Go for It
33 Lev Rubinstein
The Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties
32 Yevgeny Baratynsky
A Science Not for The Earth
31 Vsevolod Nekrasov
I Live I See
30 Kirill Medvedev
It’s No Good
29 Tomaž Šalamun
On the Tracks of Wild Game
28 Lev Rubinstein
Thirty-Five New Pages
27 Natalie Lyalin
Try a Little Time Travel
26 Srečko Kosovel
Look Back, Look Ahead
25 Vítězslav Nezval
Parrot on a Motorcycle
24 Marina Temkina
What Do You Want
23 Eugene Ostashevsky
The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza
22 Slovene Sampler
Čučnik, Pepelnik, Podlogar, Šalamun, Škrjanec
21 Tone Škrjanec
Sun on a Knee (second edition)
20 Tomaž Šalamun
Poker (second edition)
19 Valentina Saraçini
Dreaming Escape
18 Elena Fanailova
The Russian Version
17 Dmitri Golynko
As It Turned Out
16 Aleksandr Skidan
Red Shifting
15 Ivan Blatný
The Drug of Art
14 Mariana Marin
Paper Children
13 Osip Mandelstam
New Translations
12 Lidija Dimkovska
Do Not Awaken Them With Hammers
11 The Song of Igor’s Campaign
(Anonymous; tr. Bill Johnston)
10 Eugene Ostashevsky
Iterature
9 Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
Chinese Sun
8 Mikhail Aizenberg
Less Than a Meter
7 Tone Škrjanec
Sun on a Knee
6 Daniil Kharms
The Blue Notebook
5 Lev Rubinstein
Catalogue of Comedic Novelties
4 Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov
Fifty Drops of Blood
3 Tomaž Šalamun
Poker
2 Genya Turovskaya
Calendar
1 Ilya Bernstein
Attention and Man
0 Alexander Vvedensky
The Gray Notebook