WORLD CUP 2026 POETRY CHALLENGE!
This is one of seven titles on sale from seven major soccer countries during the summer of 2026. Which one will win? Buy your favorite titles at 20% off, tell your friends, and let's see which book sells the most copies. Customers of the winning book will get a 20% coupon for their next Zephyr purchase. Sale lasts through July 19 or while supplies last. Here are all the contenders:
 
• Noise and Smoky Breath, ed. Hamish Whyte (Scotland);
• In the morning we are glass, by Andra Schwarz, translated by Caroline Reul (Germany);
• Blue Flare: Three Haitian Poets, tr. by Danielle Legros Georges (Haiti);
• The World's Lightest Motorcycle, by Yi Won, tr. by Koh & Cancio-Bello (S. Korea);
• First Light, by Zafer Şenocak, tr. by Kristin Dickinson (Turkey)
• We, the Generation in the Wilderness, by Ricardo Feierstein, tr. Sadow & Kates (Argentina)
• Unnameable, by Anna Gual, tr. AKaiser (Spain)
 
When Noise and Smoky Breath was first published in 1983, editor Hamish Whyte noted that while there were some anthologies of Glasgow poets, this was the first collection to be about the renowned Scottish city. Through poems, drawings, paintings, and photographs, the book moves more or less chronologically through the 20th century, beginning with "Exhibition Ode, No. III," written by Middlemass Brown in 1901, and ending with "Song for Glasgow," written by Alasdair Robertson in 1983. A four-page paean to Glasgow by Alexander Smith from 1857 serves as an epigraph to the volume. 
 
"There are humorous, even pawky, poems to counterbalance the poems of the dark side of Glasgow," Whyte writes his introduction, "and, following the Riding and Graves definition of a true anthology as a historical rescue-work, poems which might have languished  forgotten in back numbers of small magazines and defunct journals (fitting graves some might argue) and which are worth reviving." About a quarter of the poems are written in Glasgow dialect, and the book contains extensive notes and a glossary at the end.
 
Noise and Smoky Breath went through several editions before 1988, when Zephyr Press took over its distribution in North America.