This title is nominated for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for Translation 2011. The poetry of Jean Follain (1903-1971) is increasingly seen by poets and critics in France and by his foreign admirers as a major theme in French poetry change of course after Surrealism.

The writer Henry Thomas spoke about Volyn as a chosen poet, who chose to talk about things outside himself. He was impressed by his freedom of rhetoric.

Vollin's short and humble poems, many of which were designed to preserve the rural world lost from his pre-war Norman childhood, influenced a new generation of French poets. To anyone who still believes that modern French poetry is vague and excessive in mind, the unforgettable poems of Follin are the solution.

Christopher Middleton, the poet and interpreter, chose poems that cover the life of Volyn's full writing and wrote a glossy introduction to his elegant translations.

I want that book.