Beasts

Beasts takes the perspective of the educated and curious city dweller who ventures into the natural world. Krišjanis Zelgis focuses on the intriguing unpredictability of wild beasts to explore human nature, relationships, fear, and love. His poetry is dark, sometimes angry, often funny, capturing the entirety of the natural world in honest but delicate detail. Beasts is part of the Parthian Baltic project which was launched on time for the London Book Fair 2018.

Krišjanis Zelgis’s poems have been published in various magazines, literary periodicals, and web-publications since 2003. His first collection All Those Things/Visas tas lietas was published in 2010 and nominated for several awards. Jayde Will (1978) is a literary translator. He has an M.A. in Fenno-Ugric Linguistics from Tartu University. His translations have been published in numerous journals, including Poetry Review, Trafika and Mantis, as well as anthologies such as the Dedalus Book of Lithuanian Literature and several Best European Fiction anthologies.