Scent of the Unseen: Collected Poems

Mila Haugova is Slovakia's best know female poet, author of twelve collections of poetry, the most recent of which (Genotexts) appeared in 2002. She is also highly regarded as a translator. James & Viera Sutherland-Smith are leading translators of Slovak poetry into English. James is also a poet, his collection At the Skin Resort being published by Arc in 1999. His most recent collection, In the Country of Birds was published in 2003 by Carcanet.

"In a time when western culture generates most of its symbols through the distortions of television, Mila Haugova retains the remarkable ability to sing of the symbolic heights and depths of experience. Bold, iconic and revelatory, these translations do great services to the poems of a major Central European writer." Andy Brown"