Carmen Bugan was born in Romania and has lived in the US and Ireland, she now lives in Oxford. She won a Hopwood Award and a Cowden Memorial Fellowship at the University of Michigan for her poetry. Her poetry is included in Oxford Poets 2001 Anthology (Carcanet).
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To say these poems are beautiful is to risk underselling them. It is the specific nature of their beauty that matters, compounded as it is of dark experience, hope, magic, delight, generosity and love of language. Bugan is such a natural poet that the most apparently straightforward account of life under Ceausescu transcends its grim subject. Her love poems and poems of landscape have a freshness one can only ache for.'George Szirtes