<p><i>They</i> is the first English-language collection from award-winning poet Arvis Viguls. One of the most prominent voices in 21st-century Latvian literature, Viguls' three collections to date have garnered several national prizes, and in 2017 he was named as one of Literature Across Frontiers' "Ten New Voices", a scheme intended to find "the most interesting writers working in Europe today". <br><br>His work has been translated into more than twenty languages, with full collections published in Spanish, German, Serbian, and now - thanks to the thoughtful translation work of Jayde Will - English. Readers encountering his work for the first time will encounter moments of reality too strong to be stored on film, the body as a book written in scars, truths only seen on the face of a sleeping man, and question marks sharpened like knives. They will visit the hairdressers, the laundrette and the dentist, and in each place find profound insights into the human condition.<br><br>Filled with beauty, sorrow and yearning, this is poetry that both transcends and honours the time, place and language of its creation - and is now set to be enjoyed by readers throughout the English-speaking world.</p>