Kotaro Takamura

March 13, 1883 - April 2, 1956

Japanese poet and sculptor. The poems that form the Chieko Poems collection draw on the poet's own life experiences and, read as a sequence, tell the story of his relationship with Chieko through their courtship, marriage, her mental breakdown and death. They are an enduring testament to the power of love.

> Chieko Poems in English

To read more about the background to the poems, please go to:
> Kotaro Takamura and the Chieko Poems

Federico Garcia Lorca

June 5, 1898 - August 19, 1936

Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. His poetry is impassioned, elemental and often tortured by the vicissitudes of life and love.

> El Diván del Tamarit
Collection of 12 Gacelas and 9 Casidas.

> Sonnets of Dark Love
Collection of 11 sonnets.

Other poems:
Somnabulant Ballad
Crossroad
Tree, tree
Little Infinite Poem

Miguel de Cervantes

October 9, 1547 - April 23, 1616

Spanish novelist, poet and playwright. His most famous work, Don Quixote, is regarded as the first modern novel. Much of the plain-speaking and wit of the novel can also be found in his poems.

Sir Belianis of Greece to Don Quixote
At the Tomb of Philip II in Seville
On the Duke of Medina Entering Cadiz
War Calls Me
I Seek Life in Death
The Chains of Love
The Gypsies Dance
Castilian Redondilla
Ovillejos

León de Greiff

July 22, 1895 - July 11, 1976

Colombian poet. One of the founders of the modernismo movement in Colombia, León de Greiff's work is renowned for its innovative use of symbolic language and its aspiration towards the purity of music.

Cancion Nocturna
Cancionilla
This Rose Was A Witness
For If Love Fled If Love It Was

Fyodor Tyutchev

December 5, 1803 - July 27, 1873

Russian poet. Although his poems were scarcely published in his lifetime, he is now one of the most memorised and quoted of writers from the Romantic period of Russian literature.

After the Feast
Dull Flame of Desire

Sabine Schiffner

Born 1965

Contemporary German poet. Schiffner was born in Bremen and has since lived in Cologne and Mallorca. An award-winning novelist, her collection of poems entitled Dschinn was published by S. Fischer in 2007.

From the Depths
Breezy Days
Howling
Hibiscus
Winds
Cryology (The Study of Snow)
The Village at Night
Your House on the Hill
Dragonfly Wind