Exercises 1950–1960 by Yannis Ritsos, translated by Spring Ulmer Pablo Neruda These poems explore nothing less

These poems explore nothing less than the life-process

His poetry has also appeared on BBC Radio 4 and in Aberdeen Art Gallery and V&A Dundee

sometimes a technical point about the poem’s construction from someone who was himself a poet

‘She is an extremely fine poet

Published in a bilingual English/Italian edition

Exercises 1950–1960 by Yannis Ritsos, translated by Spring Ulmer Pablo Neruda These poems explore nothing lessPublished 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