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"This first volume of essays and prose-pieces by Richard Berengarten reflects his sustained involvement in the Balkans over a period of more than thirty-five years. By focusing on his experience of Yugoslavia before, during and after that country's dissolution, Balkan Spaces locates, tracks and celebrates aspects of history, folk tradition, literary culture, educational practice, politics and poetry, while also including affectionate memoirs of many friends, most of them writers. Through intimate explorations and careful research, Berengarten discovers some of the patternings, varieties and bounties of the Balkan and Yugoslav heritage. While his keen eye questions and explores what William Blake called the ""minute particulars"", his overall vision is panoramic and multi-faceted. This book embodies a commitment to the values and varieties of Balkan civilisation, to the poetic imagination, and to the poet's vocation and craft."

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RICHARD BERENGARTEN was born in London in 1943 into a musical family. He has received the Eric Gregory Award, the Wingate-Jewish Quarterly Award for Poetry, the Keats Poetry Prize, the Yeats Club Prize and the Xu Zhimo Silver Willow Award. In 1975, he founded the international Cambridge Poetry Festival. He has been Writer-in-Residence at the international Eliot-Dante Colloquium in Florence, Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame, and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. In Serbia, he has received the international Morava Charter Poetry Prize, and in Macedonia, the Manada Prize. In 2007, his book The Blue Butterfly served as the oratorio for the annual 'Great Lesson' memorial event in Kragujevac, where in 2011 he was elected an honorary citizen. His books are translated into Macedonian, Serbian and Slovene, and he is the only British writer to have been elected a full member of the Serbian Writers' Association. Berengarten is currently a Fellow of the English Association, a Bye-Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge, and an Academic Associate at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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