Myod i mazut / Peaches and Diesel Author:Shest Irlandskikh poetov ; 6 Irish Poets In 1999, Moscow had the honour of hosting six wonderful Irish poets; representatives of Irish written culture and fellow countrymen of Yeats and Joyce. Poets from both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland...five of them write in English and the sixth, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, writes in Irish. — The phrase 'peaches and diesel' was coined by Pa... more »ul Muldoon and it is taken from the poem dedicated to Brodsky where it describes Brodsky's voice. It was the best way we felt of capturing two opposing elements manifesting itself in Irish verse -- nature and technology, the lyrical and the prosaic.« less
Thomas McCarthy, John Montague, Paul Muldoon, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Frank Ormbsby and Tom Paulin present poems in English and Irish with Russian opposite-page translation.