Zbigniew Herbert: Selected Poems

Published for the centenary of his birth, a gathering of lucid, intensely lyrical poetry from one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent literary voices.

be courageous when reason fails you be courageous
in the final reckoning it is the only thing that counts

Zbigniew Herbert was one of the best-known and most-translated poets of post-war Poland, opposed alike to Communism, Fascism, nationalism and the Church, yet moved, throughout his work, by 'a powerful sense of right and wrong without a correspo