No, Love Is Not Dead: An Anthology of Love Poetry from Around the World

No, Love Is Not Dead is a timely affirmation of the great linguistic diversity of poetry and its ability to express passionate love, this most extreme of human emotions. With influential, award-winning poets including Kim Hyesoon and Warsan Shire, and languages ranging from Amharic, Akkadian and Ancient Greek to Yankunytjatjara, Yiddish and Yoruba, this unique anthology engages the reader in reflective tales of 'Unlikely Love Stories' and 'Impossible Love',
'Love in a Time of Politics', surrealist love, visual love and free love, offering an intuitive insight into both historical and present-day perceptions of love across cultures.

Including over 50 poets, writing on each of the world's continents, this new anthology of poems about love features a diverse range of original poems written in a variety of languages - modern, ancient, endangered and constructed, accompanied by English translations and commentaries.

Poets included in the book: Apollinaire
Nicole Brossard
Augusto de Campos
Catullus
Chaucer
Dante
Robert Desnos
Ali Cobby Eckermann
Goethe
Kim Hyesoon
Louise Lab
Federico Garcia Lorca
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Mikls Radnti
Kutti Ravathi
Sappho
Warsan Shire
Laura Tohe
Marina Tsvetaeva.

Languages included in the book: Akkadian
Amharic
Ancient Greek
Faroese
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Latvian
Maori
Persian
Polari
Portuguese
Russian
Sanskrit
Scots
Scottish Gaelic
Serbian
Somali
Spanish
Urdu
Welsh
Yoruba.