Under the Eaves of a Forgotten Village is unique – it is the first anthology of contemporary Bulgarian poetry to be translated into English. Here are sixty poems by leading writers in Bulgaria today – from Dora Gabe, now in her eighties, to Vladomir Bashev, who died tragically in 1967 at the age of thirty-two. Biographical notes and comments on Bulgarian literature generally are included. The design is by David Shaw, based on a scultpture by Maryon Kantaroff. The translations were undertaken by two Canadian writers. Nikola Rousanoff, a native Bulgarian, is a graduate of the University of Toronto. John Robert Colombo, who has published ten books of poems, is well-known as the editor of Colombo’s Canadian quotations.

John Robert Colombo, who edited and annotated Worlds in Small, is known as the Master Gatherer for his many compilations of the lore and literature of Canada. Colombo has complied, translated, and written over eighty books. He co-translated into English five books of Bulgarian literature, not to mention books of verse originally written in Hungarian, Romanian, Polish, etc. In the field of native studies he has compiled Windigo, Poems of the Inuit, Songs of the Indians, and Songs of the Great Land. Among his large-scale literary anthologies are The Poets of Canada and Colombo’s Book of Canada. He edited Other Canada, the country’s first anthology of science fiction and fantasy, and beginning with Mysterious Canada, he has written or complied six books of Paranormal Canadiana. These books, plus media appearances, have earned him the title "Canada’s Mr. Mystery."

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Nikola Roussanoff, a native Bulgarian, is a graduate of the University of Toronto.

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