3+3 Mathura and Gili Haimovich ELM 1/2023 ••• Gili Haimovich and Mathura first met at a poetry festival in Romania seven years ago and have since enjoyed a long-standing collaborat...
Natalja Nekramatnaja The Agony of the Imagined By Leo Luks ELM 2/2022 ••• Natalja Nekramatnaja’s debut poetry collection Sinine pojeng (Blue Peonies) is severe, and truly exceptional in a year of otherwise pol...
Tõnis Vilu A Gift to the Psychiatrist Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 2/2022 ••• pp. 51–56 Am I, after the whole course of treatment, a better person now? I’ve screwed up an unbelievable amount of shit over ...
I Am Nature, Too By Joosep Susi ELM 2/2022 ••• Tõnis Vilu is one of the most outstanding and significant Estonian poets today. He has published eight[1] works in less than a decade, ...
Andres Allan Ellmann: One of the few mystics By Lauri Sommer ELM 2/2019 ••• Andres Allan Ellmann (1964-1988) was one of the very few mystical poets in post-war Estonian poetry. I think it was in his blood – his moth...
Eda AhiWarmth and perturbation By ELM ELM 1/2019 ••• Eda Ahi is a poet whose sharp words, impeccable sense of rhythm, and rich imagery has captivated readers since her very first collection. M...
Kristiina EhinBut Love Has a Forest Bird’s Heart By Siim Lill ELM 1/2019 ••• 2018, 88 pp.ISBN 9789949888399 Kristiina Ehin’s eighth and latest work But Love Has a Forest Bird’s Heart is a collection of poems writt...
Mehis Heinsaar The Gardener of Tension Fields By Maarja Helena Meriste ELM 1/2019 ••• Verb, 2018. 96 pp.ISBN 9789949723812Mehis Heinsaar’s baroquely fantastical world of writing no longer needs a greater introduction for Esto...
Poetry by Kristjan Haljak from the collection Verlaine’s Revolver Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 1/2019 ••• (Tuum, 2018) OH SUN OH LIGHT OH DUST I this could be rum’s dialogue and quotation marks but that woman I saw in the woods yeste...
Kristjan Haljak Poète maudit? By Siim Lill ELM 1/2019 ••• Kristjan Haljak is a poet, translator, and instructor of literature. Haljak has occasionally been called a Decadent (no matter whether seri...
Poetry by Eda Ahi from the collectionWar and Peturbation Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 1/2019 ••• (Verb, 2018) Obolon Obolon’s raspberries.  ...
Poetry by Aare Pilv Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 2/2018 ••• * in the clear winter night there’s one window still light, behind it a grown man curses his slow computer. that man is me...
Berk Vaher Behind the Corner of the Eye By Maarja Helena Meriste ELM 2/2018 ••• Berk Vaher, Silmanurga taga (Behind the Corner of the Eye) Elusamus 2018, 56 pp. ISBN 9789949884346 The title Silmanurga taga (Behind the...
Doris Kareva High tension captured in bare palms An interview by Jürgen Rooste ELM 1/2018 ••• I’ve known Doris Kareva for many years. I know her to be a good person, editor, and poet, who works persistently to help and publish other p...
Poetry by Doris Kareva from the collectionDays of Grace Translated by Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov ELM 1/2018 ••• I went to visit the world. How it smelt, how it moved and hummed! The blood stirred in my arm – svelte, vein...
Eeva Park Sensuous and social By Johanna Ross ELM 2018/1 ••• A woman furtively squeezes the rounded surfaces of hard, unripe pears in her purse: she must somehow change the mind of a man who is threate...
Poetry by Eeva Park Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 1/2018 ••• * It wasn't I who made you this way said Darwin, the divine intuitive care of genetics opted to give you light hair and a dark l...
Carolina Pihelgas Details of Darkness By Maarja Helena Meriste ELM 2018/1 ••• Carolina Pihelgas, Pimeduse pisiasjad (Details of Darkness) Kaksikhammas, 2017, 84 pp ISBN 9789949999101 Carolina Pihelgas’s fifth poet...
Hasso Krull We Carried the Ladder with Us By Maarja Helena Meriste ELM 1/2018 ••• Hasso Krull, Kandsime redelit kaasas (We Carried the Ladder with Us) Tartu, Kaksikhammas, 2017, 64 pp ISBN 9789949880188 Carolina Pihe...
Triin Soomets Free Money By Maarja Helena Meriste ELM 1/2018 ••• Triin Soomets, Vaba raha (Free Money) Tallinn, Nynorden 2017. 64 pp ISBN: 9789949960071 Triin Soomets is known foremost as an...
Poetry by Vladislav Koržets Translated by Adam Cullen ••• Cycle The night before last Wednesday, my pup died of infection, and was laid to rest out back until the resurrection. He won’t be poki...
Vladislav Koržets “Here I am now!” By Jürgen Rooste ELM 2/2017 ••• Vladislav Koržets (1951) is a long-time celebrity Estonian writer and fisherman, whose poetry debut Songs or Such (Laulud või nii) appeared ...
Adam Cullen The signs of something going right An interview by ELM ELM 2/2017 ••• Adam Cullen (31) is a translator and poet from Minnesota. He first came to Estonia in 2006, somewhat incidentally and with his sights set me...
Eda AhiHarbor By Jürgen Rooste ELM 2/2017 ••• Eda Ahi. Sadam (Harbor) Tallinn, Verb, 2017. 48 pp ISBN 9789949984152 Eda Ahi is a self-standing great of contemporary Estonian poetry....
Elo ViidingConsciousmaker By Jürgen Rooste ELM 2/2017 ••• Elo Viiding, Teadvuselooja (Consciousmaker). Tallinn, Tuum, 2016. 64 pp ISBN 9789949979431 Consciousmaker begins in a psycho-mythologic...
Kristjan HaljakConceptio Immaculata By Jürgen Rooste ELM 2/2017 ••• Kristjan Haljak. Conceptio Immaculata. Tallinn, Vihmakass ja Kakerdaja, 2017. 65 pp ISBN 9789949811212 Kristjan Haljak is the only cred...
BilleneeveAn Autumn Like an Ending RelationshipandA One-Windowed World By Jürgen Rooste ELM 1/2017 ••• Billeneeve, Sügis nagu lõppev suhe (An Autumn Like an Ending Relationship) Saarde-Pärnu, Jumalikud Ilmutused, 2015. 60 pp ISBN: 9789949519...
Silvia UrgasIt´s just about late enough Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 1/2017 ••• it’s just about late enough that the clock hands show you’re-a dope-for-caring- but-time-for-us-to-have-one-more-drink-now and some guy i...
Eda AhiDance lessons with gravity Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 1/2017 ••• they dance with you, gravity, everyone. but only the brave know the steps they should take. you’ve got that cruel but equalizing trait: b...
Kelly TurkWhere do little fat girls go? Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 1/2017 ••• where do little fat girls go when insulted beneath clotheslines behind a house to practice to practice a speech for getting back at ...
Helena LäksPalm reader (a.k.a.) don’t mention it Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 1/2017 ••• an old man wearing a cotton-padded coat rubber boots just stopped before me and said he sees my opening I was upset doubtless means som...
Sveta Grigorjevawho's afraidof sveta grigorjeva? Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 1/2017 ••• one time in grade school the topic of reading class was fairy tales redone by Disney (that’s not quite how we classified it back then ...
Five Snow Whitesand not a single prince By Carolina Pihelgas ELM 1/2017 ••• Writing about female poets, one inevitably arrives at a disturbing thought: why are some women regarded as poets, and others as poetesses? T...
Poetry by Veronika Kivisilla Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 2/2016 ••• Too nice a drunk locking up my bike in front of the store a babbling drunk approached me I wanted to withdraw but he said listen you...
Jaan KaplinskiThe last laureate? ELM 2/2016 ••• In February 2016, compelling news rang out: Jaan Kaplinski was awarded the European Prize for Literature. The award, which is sponsored by t...
Karl-Martin SinijärvKMSX: How to Say By Jürgen Rooste ELM 2/2016 ••• Karl Martin Sinijärv, KMSX: Kuidas öelda (KMSX: How to Say) Tallinn, Näo Kirik, 2016. 96 pp ISBN: 9789949980901 Karl Martin Sinijärv (1...
Silvia UrgasDestnation By Paul Raud 2/2016 ••• Silvia Urgas, Siht/koht (Destination) Tartu, Elusamus, 2015. 48 pp. ISBN 9789949387083 Silvia Urgas (1992) is one of Estonia’s newest ...
Poetry by Juhan Viiding Translated by Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov ELM 1/2016 ••• SIMPLE POEM happiness once came into the yard and the yard was ever so happy then happiness came into the room and the room was ever so ...
Six Estonian Poets:Juhan Viidingand others since him By Jan Kaus ELM 1/2016 ••• When writer and literary critic Igor Kotjuh posted on his Facebook account the top ten events in Estonian literature in 2015, one of them wa...
Jürgen RoosteThe Ideal Husband By Carolina Pihelgas ELM 1 /2016 ••• Jürgen Rooste, Ideaalne abikaasa (The Ideal Husband) Saarde-Pärnu, Ji, 2015, 107 pp ISBN: 9789949519552 Jürgen Rooste (b 1979) is one o...