According to the dust jacket, Srečko Kosovel is ‘often called the Slovene Rimbaud’. Mainly, as far as I can gather, because he wrote all his poetry very young; not, like Rimbaud, because he decided to run off and do something else, but because he died at 22.

I found The Golden Boat: Selected Poems of Srečko Kosovel while I was browsing through the Salt website, looking for something I could buy to support their ‘Just One Book‘ campaign. I decided to kill two birds with one stone and b More...