Estonia's Jaan Kaplinski (1941-2021) was one of Europe's major poets,
and one of his country's best-known writers and cultural figures. He
was
a member of the new post-Revolution Estonian parliament in 1992-95 and
his essays on cultural transition and the challenges of globalisation
are published across the Baltic region.
This selection includes work previously unpublished in English as well
as poems drawn from all four of his previous UK collections: The Same
Sea in Us All, The Wandering Border, Through the Forest and Evening
Brings Everything Back.