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Title Page
Contents
Sasha Dugdale: Preface
David and Helen Constantine: Introduction
Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort: From the Editorial to the first issue (1965)
Miroslav Holub: The fly (1965)
Jan Bolesław Ożóg: Ash (1975)
Primo Levi: The Girl at Pompeii (1999)
Choman Hardi: One Moment for Halabja (2015)
Amarjit Chandan: Punjabi Folksongs from World War One (2014)
Olga Berggolts: Late One Melancholy February Night (1996)
Author unknown or concealed: Dear Fahimeh (2005)
Natalya Gorbanevskaya: ‘That time I did not save Warsaw, nor Prague later…’ (1977)
Natalya Gorbanevskaya: ‘This, from the diagnosis…’ (2002)
Eva Gerlach: The Hedgehog (1997)
Wisława Szymborska: Innocence (1975)
Yehuda Amichai: A Room by the Sea (1965)
George Gömöri: Polishing October (1973)
Dan Pagis: Roll Call in the Concentration Camp (1974)
Dan Pagis: Scrawled in Pencil in a Sealed Car (1974)
Bartolo Cattafi: Winter Figs (1975)
Miklós Radnóti: Letter to My Wife (2010)
Shash Trevett: In Memory (2013)
Shash Trevett: Bitter Waters (2013)
Attila József: What Should a Man Do? (1972)
Anna Akhmatova: Wild Honey (2005)
Frances Leviston: Reconstruction (2013)
Miroslav Holub: Five minutes after the air raid (1967)
Kim Hyesoon: A Teardrop (2014)
János Pilinszky: The Passion of Ravensbrück (1970)
Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort: From the Editorial to Issue Three (1967)
Du Fu: Ballad of the Military Waggons (2007)
Gabriel Levin: Self-portrait in Khaki (1993)
Ziba Karbassi: Writing Cells (2015)
Nikola Madzirov: Hope Climbed (2014)
Vasko Popa: The Poplar and the Passer-by (1979)
Fawzi Karim: Usual Story (2014)
Adriaan Morriën: National Anthem (to be sung standing) (1976)
Sasha Dugdale: Editorial to ‘Scorched Glass’ (2015)
Wisława Szymborska: Hunger Camp near Jasło (1975)
George Theiner: From ‘Helping Those Who Have Been Silenced’ (1978)
George Theiner: Letter to Daniel Weissbort, 15 September 1968
Jiří Kolář: Advice for Sycophants (1969)
Ivan Hartel: if I don’t recant, someone else will (1978)
Antonín Bartušek: Anniversary in Fribourg (21.8.1969)
Ted Hughes: From the Introduction to Poetry International, 1967 (1971)
Sarah Kirsch: The Chitchat of Crows (2013)
Luis Felipe Fabre: Doris Najera and Detective Ramirez (2013)
Luis Felipe Fabre: Infomercial (2013)
Josephine Balmer: Naso the Barbarian (2008)
Peter Huchel: Winter Quarters (1967)
Robert Desnos: Tomorrow (2007)
Robert Desnos: Springtime (2007)
Waldo Williams: The Dead Children (2006)
Guillaume Apollinaire: ‘My Lou I shall sleep tonight…’ (2007)
Clemente Rèbora: Voice from a Dead Look-out (2014)
Paul van Ostaijen: Dead Sunday (2014)
Mahmoud Darwish: From ‘A State of Siege’ (2004)
Yves Berger: 2nd March: Al Rabweh (2014)
Dvora Amir: On the Rim of Abu-Tor (2008)
Samih al-Qasim: End of Talk with a Jailor (2008)
Samih al-Qasim: Excerpt from an Inquest (2008)
Sasha Dugdale: From ‘At the Edge’ (2009)
Rafael Alberti: ‘If my voice should die on land…’ (2009)
Homero Aridjis: In a Valley I Saw the Dead Shades (2009)
Homero Aridjis: Black Grass
Primo Levi: The Black Stars (2011)
Ulrike Almut Sandig: being inspected (2013)
Mykhailo Draj-Khmara: Swans (2011)
Alba Donati: Valerio’s Story (1999)
Raúl Rivero: Stardust (2014)
Hugo Claus: 1965 (2013)
David Constantine: Bertolt Brecht and Margarete Steffin: Love in a Time of Exile and War (2014)
Núria Quevedo: Cover illustration for ‘The Constellation’ (2014)
Bertolt Brecht: ‘When we were first divided into two…’ (2014)
Margarete Steffin: ‘Emboldened, putting off formal address…’ (2014)
Vitězslav Nezval: Mother Hope (1978)
Vasko Popa: Cape of Good Hope (1981)
Ivan V. Lalić: The Spaces of Hope (1986)
Paul Celan: Tenebrae (1970)
Daniel Weissbort: From ‘Ted Hughes and Translation’ (2003)
Daniel Weissbort: From ‘Hughes Translates Juhász’ (2003)
Ted Hughes: On the ‘provisional tense’
Ferenc Juhász: From ‘The Boy Changed into a Stag Cries Out at the Gate of Secrets’ (2003)
Pascale Petit: At the Gate of Secrets (2003)
Tara Bergin: Stag-Boy (2011)
Ernst Jandl: oberflächenübersetzung (1971)
Ernst Jandl: die zeit vergeht (1971)
Chris McCabe: Ernst Jandl: the Biomechanical Magus in London (2016)
Zahrad: Sentence (1971)
Zahrad: The Woman Cleaning Lentils (1971)
Anna Lewis: From ‘The Wash House’ (2008)
Vasko Popa: Swallows’ Language (1981)
Vasko Popa: Anne Pennington (1981)
Mimi Khalvati: Ghazal: To Hold Me (2006)
Sorley MacLean: Dawn (2011)
Shazea Quraishi: Carandasi (2010)
David Constantine: Editorial to ‘Getting it Across’ (2007)
Paul Celan: Psalm (1970)
George Szirtes: The Voronezh Variations (2014)
George Szirtes: The Voronezh Variations: Versions of a Mandelstam Quatrain (2014)
Paulo Leminski: ‘Poetry is the Liberty…’ (2014)
Yu Jian: Event – Digging (2014)
Sujata Bhatt: Another Daphne (2014)
Zsuzsa Beney: The Translator (2008)
Giuseppe Belli: The Good Life (2005)
Wojciech Bonowicz: Night (2009)
Jamie Duncan: Note on Paulo Leminski (2014)
Paulo Leminski: ‘Things don’t start in a story…’ (2014)
Tomas Tranströmer: The Journey’s Formulae (1971)
Hilde Domin: Cologne (1974)
Leah Goldberg: The Girl Sings to the River (1974)
Carmen Bugan: Why I Do Not Write in My Native Language (2004)
José Rosas Ribeyro: My Grandfather (1997)
Dan Pagis: Instructions for Getting Across the Border (1974)
Ingeborg Bachmann: Exile (1967)
Daniel Huws: Memories of Ingeborg Bachmann and Modern Poetry in Translation (2015)
David Diop: From ‘Contribution to the Debate on National Poetry’ (1979)
David Diop: Testimony (1979)
Gabriela Mistral: The Foreigner (2007)
Soleïman Adel Guémar: False Departure (2004)
Ovid: From Tristia (2004)
Dimitris Tsaloumas: Rain I (2005)
Dimitris Tsaloumas: Rain II (2005)
Tahar Ben Jelloun: From ‘The Poet, neither Guide nor Prophet’ (1979)
Marina Tsvetaeva: From ‘Poem of the End’ (1970)
Elaine Feinstein: From ‘Marina Tsvetaeva’ (1996)
Ridha Zili: Ifrikya the centre of my being (1979)
Yannis Ritsos: Return (2009)
Liliana Ursu: The Tower of Steps (2013)
Liliana Ursu: Between the Wheat Wells and the Bridal Mirrors (2013)
Joan Ariete: Why I Left (2010)
Denisa Comănescu: Return from Exile (2010)
Virgil: The Sibyl (2009)
Tadeusz Różewicz: Chestnut (1975)
Nina Cassian: I wanted to stay (1977)
Bewketu Seyoum: In Search of Fat (2008)
Bewketu Seyoum: Elegy (2008)
Bewketu Seyoum: Meditation on the Garden (2008)
Caroline Maldonado: Recalling Rocco (2015)
Rocco Scotellaro: The Full Moon (2008)
Rocco Scotellaro: Forlorn Cuckoo, Your Call Keeps Us Awake (2008)
Yi Lu: Evening Construction Site (2014)
Euphrase Kezilahabi: Sorting the Rice (2013)
Author unknown: The Spirit Lord’s Bearkill (2006)
Harry Martinson: Cable-Ship (2007)
Harry Martinson: ‘The swamp mosses drink of the stream…’ (2007)
Reesom Haile: African Anthem (2013)
Jacques Réda: The Fête (2014)
Euphrase Kezilahabi: Thread (2013)
Shinjiro Kurahara: A Fox (2009)
Shinjiro Kurahara: A Footprint (2009)
János Pilinszky: ‘Creative Imagination’ in Our Time (1971)
John E. Smelcer: Spring on the Yukon (2010)
John E. Smelcer: Owl and Mouse (2010)
Ned Thomas: From ‘From Minorities to Mosaic’ (2011)
Gerður Kristný: Ægisiða (2012)
Razmik Davoyan: ‘Somewhere, a birch wood is being stolen now…’ (2012)
Lal Singh Dil: Nadeen (2012)
Lal Singh Dil: The Outcasts (2012)
Ko Un: Places I want to go (2012)
Unpoti Pacunkutaiyar: ‘Should clouds refuse to rain…’ (2012)
Homero Aridjis: ‘In its warmth Summer is a nest…’ (1974)
Kristiina Ehin: ‘Cows come from the sea…’ (2010)
José Watanabe: The Arrangement (1997)
Vasko Popa: How the Mole Came to Be (1979)
János Pilinszky: Aquarium (1977)
Valerio Magrelli: ‘I was lying on an outpatient’s bed…’ (1999)
Cesare Pavese: Donne Appassionate (2001)
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Towards the Baths of Caracalla (2014)
Jack Mapanje: Kalikalanje of Ostrich Forest (2015)
Valérie Rouzeau: 01 43 15 50 67 (2013)
Takagi Kyozo: Poor Harvest (1971)
Jón úr Vör: Lean Months (1977)
Edvard Kocbek: Landscape (1970)
János Pilinszky: Knocking (1977)
Fadhil Assultani: A Tree (2003)
Ted Hughes: Preface to Modern Poetry in Translation: 1983
Mahmoud Darwish: From ‘Mural’ (2008)
Miroslav Holub: Wings (1965)
Elena Shvarts: Birdsong on the Seabed (2007)
Kaneko Misuzu: Stars and Dandelions (2006)
Krystyna Miłobędzka: Four Poems (2013)
Liam Ó Muirthile: The Parlour (2004)
Heinz Ehemann: Gerontology or When You Get Old (2009)
Georgi Gospodinov: My Mother Reads Poetry (2009)
Hai Zi: Sonnet: Crown (2013)
Nikiforos Vrettakos: The Orange Trees of Sparta (2009)
Guy Goffette: From ‘Elegy for a Friend’ (2015)
Wang Wei: Autumnal Dusk in the Mountains (2009)
Paula Ludwig: ‘When you return it’s always…’ (2011)
Paula Ludwig: ‘A day and a night it took me…’ (2011)
Primo Levi: Singing (2011)
Yves Bonnefoy: Threats of the Witness (2000)
Hô Chí Minh: Entertainment (2011)
Hô Chí Minh: Liberation (2011)
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi: Nothing (2012)
Gerður Kristný: My Brother and Sister (2012)
Maya Sarishvili: To My Father (2012)
Maya Sarishvili: ‘This ice-cutter silence…’ (2012)
Federico García Lorca: Romance de la Pena Negra (2012)
Yehuda Amichai: When I Was a Boy (1965)
Carlos Drummond de Andrade: Seven-sided Poem (2014)
Marzanna Bogumila Kielar: ‘a flock of pigeons blossoms white against the greyish cloth…’ (2004)
Anna Kühn-Cichocka: ‘Here the houses…’ (2005)
Anna Kühn-Cichocka: ‘On rainy days…’ (2005)
Mario Luzi: Life True to Life (1975)
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen: Sibyls (1972)
Anna Enquist: River (1998)
Edith Södergran: Violet Dusks (1973)
Ingeborg Bachmann: Fog Land (1967)
Ingeborg Bachmann: Days in White (1967)
Charlie Louth: The Correspondence of Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan (2009)
Vita Andersen: The Beautiful Room (1978)
Nina Cassian: Like Gulliver (1977)
Hilde Domin: Catalogue (1974)
Halina Poświatowska: ‘These words have existed always…’ (1975)
Halina Poświatowska: ‘my face is more and more like the moon…’ (1975)
Rutger Kopland: Three Winter Poems (1976)
Antonín Bartušek: Those Few Years (1978)
Haruo Shibuya: A Young Wife (1978)
Jean Dodo: In My Neighbourhood Market (1979)
Ridha Zili: Childhood (1979)
Vasko Popa: Bright Lovers (1981)
Vasko Popa: High Lovers (1981)
Anna Enquist: La Folia (1998)
Gianni D’Elia: Sta(i)rway to Heaven (1999)
Marina Boroditskaya: ‘So Much Gentleness from Unknown Men…’ (2002)
Eleni Vakalo: From ‘Genealogy’ (1968)
Michael Rosen: From ‘A Conversation on Children’s Poetry’ (2015)
Gabriela Cantú Westendarp: The Language of Ghosts (2015)
Nge Nge (Kyaukse): A Man Who is Easily Fooled and a Woman Who Barely Speaks (2015)
Ma Ei: Out of Sight (2015)
Forugh Farrokhzad: In Darkness (2015)
Arseny Tarkovsky: Portrait (1996)
Philippe Jaccottet: ‘Plus aucun souffle…’ (1995)
Philippe Jaccottet: ‘Toi cependant…’ (1995)
Philippe Jaccottet: ‘Qu’on me le montre…’ (1995)
Raymond Queneau: If You Imagine (1966)
Tomas Tranströmer: The Couple (1971)
Takagi Kyozo: Lightning Over Beds of Rice Seedlings (1971)
Ivan Drach: The Ballad of Widowhood (1971)
Ivan Drach: The Ballad of the Bundles (1971)
János Pilinszky: The Desert of Love (1970)
Toon Tellegen: Evening (2013)
Toon Tellegen: Peace (2013)
Xidu Heshang: Fictionalising Her (2014)
Christine Marendon: Evening Primrose (2014)
Angélica Freitas: ‘I sleep with myself (2014)…’
Angélica Freitas: ‘because a good woman…’ (2014)
Natalya Gorbanevskaya: ‘Hurry take pleasure in the oblique caress of rain…’ (1977)
Ted Hughes: The MPT editor
Appendices
Acknowledgements
INDEX OF POETS’ AND TRANSLATORS’ NAMES
INDEX OF POEMS AND PROSE PIECES
About the Authors
Copyright
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