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A Room for Two
Lahav-Radlmesser Tamir
Published March 2010. 64 pages, paperback. Also by Tamir Lahav-Radlmesser – Second Person Plural
Tamir Lahav-Radlmesser's latest book of poems deals with a curious experience: the therapeutic encounter. "The Room" is the clinic where the encounters take place and "The Two" are the therapist and the patient. These poems are written from the "case"'s point of view. Lahav-Radlemesser is one of the important and original voices in contemporary Hebrew poetry.
Another Place, A Foreign City - A novel in verse
Arad Maya
Published June 2003. 192 pages, paperback
Orit, a girl soldier in Zahal's education corps gets a double assignment: to write a brochure on Israeli Identity and help a lonely immigrant from Canada. A quest for love and self-knowledge that makes for an inventive, witty, and rhyming take on Pushkin's Yevgeni Onegin. A bit like Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate, it is totally Israeli and absolutely absorbing. Maya Arad was born in Israel (1971) and grew up in Kibbutz Nahal-Oz. She graduated in Classics and Linguistics at the Tel Aviv University and has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from London University. Her first book Another Place, a Foreign City, a novel in rhymes won the Ministry of Education and Culture award and in 2005 was Shortlisted for the Sapir prize (the Israeli Booker). She lives in Stanford with her husband and two daughters.
Epigrams - Whichever Way
Dykman Aminadav A.
Published February 2016. 375 pages, paperback
An extraordinary book combining translations of classical Greek epigrams with new poems, inspired by those epigrams, written by the translator Aminadav A. Dykman. Dykman has published translations of Russian, French and Greek poetry. Translated from Greek and recast in Hebrew verse, with notes and afterword by Aminadav A. Dykman
Megile Lider
Manger Itzilk
Published 2010. Illustrated by Noam Nadav Hebrew-Yiddish edition Translated from Yiddish by David Asaf
This publication has been made possible by the generous support of the Izhak Artzi Memorial Trust, established by Dan David And with the support of: Itzik and Genya Manger Fund, Beth Shalom Aleichem, Tel Aviv,School of Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel Lottery Council for the Arts, Israeli Center for Libraries
New Music
Hirsh Eli
Published May 2008. 168 pages, paperback
Eli Hirsh wrote this last, his third, collection of poems in one creative, intense powerful burst. Hirsh is trying to give back poetry its clear voice - the passionate and authoritative voice of the muses, which was lost in the abyss of destruction of the twentieth century. On his journey Hirsh finds old and faraway sounds but the music they form is new and full of energy.
Out of the Body
Partom Noam
Published May 2024. 164 pages, paperback
In her third poetry book Noam Partom describes the crisis she went through while fighting multiple scelorosis, her success in overcoming the entailing fears and depression and the wonderful discovery she is pregnant, against all odds.
Quatrains
Netz Reviel
Published December 2014. 71 pages, paperback
Quatrains is part of a long tradition of poetry inspired by Omar Khayyam, the Moslem middle ages poet-mathematician. This is poetry of the tension between geometrical precision and lyrical observation, between the search for truth and the only certainty in the existence of the doubt. The 92 quatrains are followed by an essay on Khayyam's work and the relation between poetry and mathematics.
Setting the Water on Fire
Partom Noam
Published October 2012. 191 pages, paperback
Noam Partom's poems are volcanic eruptions of verbal, emotional and intellectual forces. Partom's writing is musical and dramatic, combining humoristic introspection with the rich traditions of Hebrew women poets of the 20th century.
Seven Poems
Shabtai Aharon
Published December 2012. 436 pages, paperback
The seven poems collected here were written between 1975 and 1985. The poems were originally written continously, and pioneered a real revolution in Hebrew poetry. Their collection in one volume for the first time is enhacing their continuity and their constant movement.
Sun Oh Sun
Shabtai Aharon
Published July 2005. 58 pages, paperback
Aharon Shabtai is one of the most prominent poets in Israel. His eighteenth poetry book is a collection of poems written in the last 3 years. It is the clearest expression so far of Shabtai's political poetry. At the heart of the collection are two inspirational poems, which are among his best: "The Fence", which deals with the separation wall and "The Hope", which looks for hope in a disrupted and violent political space.
Tanya
Shabtai Aharon
Published March 2008. 63 pages, paperback
Aharon Shabtai's 19th book of poems is published on the first anniversary of the death of his wife, Tanya Reinhart. Death appears for the first time in Shabtai's poetry, and for the first time he adjusts his poetics to having to face deep mourning. His political and love poetry also gain here a new dimension.
With an Iron Pen - Hebrew Protest Poetry 1984-2004
Tal Nizan (editor)
Published January 2005. 189 pages, paperback
With an Iron Pen traces the trajectory of Hebrew poetry over the last 20 years in relation to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian people and their lands in the West Bank and Gaza. This occupation has penetrated and reshaped every aspect of Israeli life, including poetry. The anthology brings together, for the first time, a wide range of poetic voices of protest — from pre-eminent, prize-winning poets such as Aharon Shabtai, Dalia Ravikovitch, Meir Wieseltier, Yehuda Amichai, Yitzhak Laor and Natan Zach, to younger poets of Hebrew letters. They write of shame, rage, despair and sorrow at the ongoing occupation
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