Poems Before & After av Miroslav Holub

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<p>Miroslav Holub was the Czech Republic''s most important poet, and also one of her leading immunologists. His fantastical and witty poems give a scientist''s bemused view of human folly and other life on the planet. Mixing myth, history and folktale with science and philosophy, his plainly written, sceptical poems are surreal mini-dramas often pivoting on paradoxes.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Poems Before & After</em> covers thirty years of his poetry. <em>Before</em> are his poems from the fifties and sixties, poems written before the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia: first published in English in his Penguin <em>Selected Poems</em> (1967) and in Bloodaxe''s <em>The Fly</em> (1987), with some additional poems. <em>After</em> are translations of his later poetry, all written after 1968, including not only those from his two Bloodaxe editions, <em>On the Contrary</em> (1984) and <em>Supposed to Fly</em> (1996), but also the entire texts of two late collections published by Faber, <em>V