The Earth on Fire by René Noyau trans. Gérard Noyau with Peter Pegnall Ly Seppel  Clever Backbone (2009)

 Clever Backbone (2009)

but never enough to settle the reader

as a warning or to express fear or foreboding

is a collective of Latvian poets writing in Russian whose unique work plays at the boundaries between various creative genres and cultures

these 300 pages are filled with Helen’s illustrations

The Earth on Fire by René Noyau trans. Gérard Noyau with Peter Pegnall Ly Seppel  Clever Backbone (2009)The first translation into English of the poems of Francophone Mauritian writer Ren Noyau (19111984)The poems are presented in their original French as well as in English translation.There are many reasons to be fascinated by Ren Noyau He cannot be pigeonholed in any particular style or subject matter, moves from the earthy to the ethereal, often in the same poem. A devotee of the surreal image, exotic and startling, he is also capable of a raw