Arvo Mets was born in Tallinn to an Estonian Orthodox father and a Lutheran mother.
Arvo Mets organised poetry reading in the “Taganka” literary club (rus.
A number of his poems have been translated into English, Dutch, Hindi, Serbian and other languages.
His complete poems appeared in 2021 in Swedish translation by Alan Asaid: Tallinns stenar.
Later these girls make devoted wives whose faces remind us of houses, furniture, carrier bags.