
Miroslav Holub was the Czech Republic's most important poet, and also one of her leading immunologists. His fantastical and witty poems give a scientist's bemused view of human folly and other life on the planet. Mixing myth, history and folktale with science and philosophy,...


Miroslav Holub was the Czech Republic's foremost modern poet, and one of her leading immunologists. 'Poems Before and After' covers over 40 years of his poetry.