Description
Yvonne Green, born in 1957 in London to a multi-lingual Central Asian family, practised law, and then published her first collection, Boukhara, winner of the 2007 Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition. Her second, The Assay, was also published in Ivrit by Am Oved as Hanisoo-yi, having won funds for translation from Celia Atkin and Lady Gavron. Her third, After Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin, was the Winter 2011 Poetry Book Society’s Translation Choice. Her fourth, Honoured, was a Winter 2015 Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
