{"title":"root-catalog \u003e Root \u003e Browse Books \u003e Uncategorized","description":"Uncategorized","products":[{"product_id":"modern-poetry-in-translation-series-3-no12-freed-speech","title":"Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.12) Freed Speech","description":"2009 sees the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. One of those rights is freedom of speech. This issue of \u003ci\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates speech that has been freed. Poetry and translation, working together, have often been the means and the best expression of that liberation. 'Freed Speech' features examples from past and present, from all over the world, from all manner of circumstances, of people being enabled to speak and of their voices being heard. It also explores the repression and harming of those voices, but chiefly shows the triumph of the will to speak, the freeing, the recovery and the enjoyment of tongues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eContents\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditorial  \u003cbr\u003eSee How I Land: Oxford poets and exiled writers. Poems by Dawood, Jamie McKendrick, Yousif Qasmiyeh and Bernard O’Donoghue \u003cbr\u003eYannis Ritsos, ‘Tombs of our Ancestors’, translated by Sarah Kafatou\u003cbr\u003eYannis Ritsos, four poems, translated by Robert Hull\u003cbr\u003eBerkan Karpat and Zafer Senocak,  ‘nâzim hikmet: on the ship to mars’, translated by Tom Cheesman \u003cbr\u003eEdith Södergran, four poems, translated by Mike Horwood\u003cbr\u003eErnst Stadler, two poems, translated by John Greening \u003cbr\u003e‘Gandhari’s Lament’, from Mahabharata, translated by Carole Satyamurti\u003cbr\u003eAnnemarie Austin, ‘Come the Thaw’ \u003cbr\u003eF. Mehrban, two poems, translated by the author and Helen Smith \u003cbr\u003eSeamus Heaney, three ‘Freed Voices’ from Aeneid VI\u003cbr\u003eArchilochus, ‘The Cologne Epode’, translated by William Heath\u003cbr\u003eSappho,  Fragment 58, translated by John Morey \u003cbr\u003eShazea Quraishi,  ‘The Courtesan’s Reply’\u003cbr\u003ePoems from Romania, translated by Adam Sorkin and others \u003cbr\u003eMarie Luise Kaschnitz, ‘Unsaid’ and ‘Spirals’, translated by Harry Guest\u003cbr\u003eAmit Chaudhuri, ‘The Writers’\u003cbr\u003eJazra Khaleed, three poems, translated by Peter Constantine\u003cbr\u003eMangalesh Dabral, three poems, translated by Sudeep Sen\u003cbr\u003ePawlo Tychyna, six poems, translated by Steve Komarnyckyj\u003cbr\u003eWojciech Bonowicz, six poems, translated by Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese\u003cbr\u003eDavid Huerta,  ‘Nine Years Later –  A Poem Dated’, translated by Tom Boll and The Poetry Translation Centre Workshop \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhotos from the launch of ‘Frontiers’\u003cbr\u003eRobert Hull, ‘At the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrecht,  ten poems, translated by David Constantine\u003cbr\u003eMichael Foley, ‘Wang Wei in Exile’ \u003cbr\u003eWang Wei, ‘Autumnal Dusk in the Mountains’, translated by Julian Farmer \u003cbr\u003eJennie Feldman, ‘Olive Trees, West Bank’\u003cbr\u003eChris Beckett, six Ethiopian poems \u003cbr\u003ePatrice de La Tour du Pin, ‘Children of September’, translated by Padraig Rooney\u003cbr\u003eIvan Teofilov, six poems, translated by Jonathan Dunne \u003cbr\u003eLouis Aragon, ‘Lilac and Roses’, translated by Tom Chamberlain\u003cbr\u003eLouis Aragon, ‘Epilogue’, translated by John Manson\u003cbr\u003eHomero Aridjis, six poems, translated by George McWhirter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid and Helen Constantine, A Note on James Kirkup \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBelinda Cooke on David Scott’s Mallarmé \u003cbr\u003ePaschalis Nikolaou on Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke\u003cbr\u003eEmily Lygo on Belinda Cooke’s Tsvetaeva \u003cbr\u003eJosephine Balmer, Further Books: Writing Women \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040744952,"sku":"9780955906428","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_d8dd29cf-4e84-4c0d-a2f6-a33257284a24.jpeg?v=1417533402"},{"product_id":"mpt-10-russian-poetrybrodsky","title":"MPT 10: Russian Poetry\/Brodsky","description":"Karolina Pavlova, Viacheslav Ivanov, Velemir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Khodasevich, Nikolay Gumilyov, Anna Akhmatova, Nina Berberova, Sophia Parnok, Marina Tsvetaeva, Georgii Ivanov, Nikolay Zabolotsky, Daniel Kharms, Arseny Tarkovsky, Igor Chinnov, Olga Berggolts, fazil Iskander, Andrei Voznesensky, Gennadi Aygi, Yevgeny Rein, Yakov Zugman, Daniel Andreyev, Ravil Bukharayev, Dmitry Bobyshev, Yunna Moritz, Leonic Aranzon, Henri Volohonsky, Vadim Kreyd, Smitry Prigov, Andrei Gritsman, Viktor Krivulin, Sergei Gandlevsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e+ Peter Levi on verse translation, Elaine Feinstein on Marina Tsvetayeva\u003cbr\u003e+a special feature on Joseph Brodsky\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040746588,"sku":"61709693572","price":8.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/617_2_06082003_174200.gif?v=1417533497"},{"product_id":"mpt-12-dutch-and-flemish-poets","title":"MPT 12: Dutch and Flemish Poets","description":"Dutch and Flemish Poetry edited by Theo Hermans, with the assistance of Yann Lovelock\u003cbr\u003ePeter Ghyssaert, Dirk van Bastelaere, Erik Spinoy, Esther Jansma, Pieter Boskma, Benno Barnard, Tonnus Oosterhoff, Miriam Van hee, Stefan Hertmans, Eva Gerlach, Arie van den Berg, Leonard Nolens, Anna Enquist, Gerrit Komrij, Stefaan van den Bremt, HC ten Berge, J Bernlef, Rutger Kopland, Judith Herzberg, Hugo Claus, Gerrit Kouwenaar, CO Jellema\u003cbr\u003e+ a checklist of Dutch and Flemish PostWar Poetry compiled by Theo Hermans.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040746616,"sku":"9787777775201","price":8.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/618_2_06082003_174418.gif?v=1417533501"},{"product_id":"mpt-16-german-and-french-poetry","title":"MPT 16: German and French Poetry.","description":"German and French poetry: guest editor - Norma Rinsler\u003cbr\u003eGerman poetry - Goethe, Novalis, Heinrich Heine, Stefan George, Christian Morgenstern, Rilke, Joachim Ringelnatz, Georg Trakl, Heinz Czechowski, Sarah Kirsh, Hans Werner Cohn, Gü'nter Kunert, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, WG Sebald, Ulla Hahn\u003cbr\u003eFrench poetry - Louise Labé, Remy Belleau, Tristan Corbière, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Valéry, Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars, Tahar Bekir and two Francophone poems\u003cbr\u003e+ Pem Sluijter, Nachoem Wijnberg, Tarjei Vesaas, Per Wästberg\u003cbr\u003e+ Reviews by Richard Smith, Richard Dove, Ruth Fainlight\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040746656,"sku":"9780953382422","price":8.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/622_2_06082003_175317.gif?v=1417533505"},{"product_id":"mpt-19-iraqi-poetry-today","title":"MPT 19: Iraqi Poetry Today","description":"Iraqi Poetry Today\u003cbr\u003eGuest Editor: Saadi A Simawe\u003cbr\u003eMahdi Muhammed Ali, Sinan Anton, Fadhil Assultani, Fadhil al-Azzawi, Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayyati, Bekes (Faiq Abdulla Beg), Bekes Jr (Sherko Faiq), Mahmoud al-Braikan, Goran (Abdula Sulaiman Abdula Beg), Gzar Hantoosh, Bulland al-Haydari, Ahmed Herdi, Fereydun Refiq Hilmi, Lamiah Abbas Imara, Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri, Jigerkhwen (Sheikh Mus Hasan Muhamad), Jamal Juma'h, Fawzi Karim, Abd al-Karim Kassid, Shakir Li'aibi, Sami Mahdi, Nazik al-Mala'ika, Dunya Mikhail, Murad Mikha'il, Sajidah al-Musawi, Awad Nasir, Muzaffar al-Nawwab, Salah Niazi, Abdula Peshew, Abd al-Rahim Salih al-Rahim, Yousif al-Sa'igh, Aziz al-Samawi, Shakir al-Samawi, Sadiq al-Saygh, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Sheikh Selman, Hashim Shafiq, Ronny Someck, Jawad Yaqoob, S'adi Yusuf.\u003cbr\u003e+ Kurdish Poetry \/ Muhamad Tawfiq Ali\u003cbr\u003e+ The Boundless Poet \/ Daniel Reynolds\u003cbr\u003e+ Muhammad Afifi Matar, Quartet of Joy \/ Saadi A Simawe and Carolina Hotchandani\u003cbr\u003e+ Notes on the poets and translators\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040746672,"sku":"9780953382460","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/624_2_06082003_175823.jpeg?v=1417533509"},{"product_id":"mpt-22-poets-at-bush-house-the-bbc-world-service","title":"MPT 22: Poets at Bush House: the BBC World Service","description":"The original intention with this issue had been to celebrate the World Service of the BBC to which MPT in its formative years, owed so much.  The aim was to produce an issue which would represent a substantial selection of the many languages in which the BBC broadcasts from Bush House.  (By the end of WWII the Corporation was already broadcasting in forty-five languages.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen MPT was founded, one of its first ports of call was Bush House.  We soon discovered that there were many distinguished writers (including many poets) working there.  The journal's aim initially, was to provide a platform for the poetry of the first post-War generation of Eastern Europe poets, like Herbert, Rozewicz, Popa, Pilinszky. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce various contacts had been made, a good deal of advice was forthcoming from Bush House, but the relationship was reciprocal.    e.g.  Ted Hughes took part in a programme, on the Hungarian Service, together with the poet Janos Pilinszky.  In it Ted Hughes discusses his commitment to world poetry and his approach to translation...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040746704,"sku":"9780954536701","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/925_2_08102003_104048.jpeg?v=1417533519"},{"product_id":"mpt-20-contemporary-russian-women-poets","title":"MPT 20: Contemporary Russian Women Poets.","description":"Russian Women Poets:\u003cbr\u003eBella Akhmadulina, Liana Alaverdova, Vera Anserova, Mariya Avvakumova, Polina Barskova, Tatyana Bek, Larisa Berezovchuk, Marina Boroditskaya, Ekaterina Boyarskikh, Vera Chizhevskaya, Svetlanha Chulkova, Svetlana Den'gina, Regina Derieva, Marina Dolia, Irina Ermakova, Galina Ermoshina, Zoya Ezrokhi, Elena Fanailova, Nina Gabrielian, Marina Galina, Anna Glazova, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Nina Gorlanova, Lydiya Grigoryeva, Faina Grimberg, Elena Ignatova, Nina Iskrenko, Olga Ivanova, Svetlana Ivanova, Inna Kabysh, Katia Kapovich, Svetlana Kekova, Olga Khvostova, Mariya Kildibekova, Nina Kossman, Irina Kovaleva, Ella Krylova, Marina Kudimova, Inna Kulishova, Yuliya Kunina, Evgeniya Lavut, Elena Lazutkina, Inna Lisnianskaya, Sveta Litvak, Olga Martynova, Larisa Miller, Tatyana Milova, Elizaveta Mnatskanova, Yunna Morits, Negar, Olesia Nikolaeva, Rea Nikonova, Vera Pavlova, Alexandra Petrova, Liudmila Petrushevskaya, Olga Postnikova, Irina Ratushinskaya, Tatyana Retivova, Olga Sedakova, Evelina Shats, Tatyana Shcherbina, Elena Shvarts, Mariya Stepanova, Darya Sukhovei, Olga Sulchinskaya, Vitalina Tkhorzhevskaya, Elena Ushakova, Ekaterina Vlasova, Tatyana Voltskaya, Liudmilla Zubova.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e+ Drafts of a Shcherbina translation by Derek Walcott\u003cbr\u003e+ After the deluge \/ Tatyana Retivova\u003cbr\u003e+ Rhyme is Female \/ Tatyana Voltskaya\u003cbr\u003e+ A City of Women \/ Aleksei Alekhin\u003cbr\u003e+ How we built the tower - \"the Vavilon project\" (www.vavilon.ru) \/ Dmitry Kuzmin\u003cbr\u003e+ Bibliography \/ Valentina Polukhina\u003cbr\u003e+ Biographies of the poets and translators\u003cbr\u003e+ Three Russian poets \/ tr. Stephen Capus\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040747052,"sku":"9780953382484","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/625_2_06082003_180056.jpeg?v=1417533559"},{"product_id":"mpt-4-second-international-poets-festival-jerusalem","title":"MPT 4: Second International Poets Festival Jerusalem.","description":"The Jerusalem International Poets Festival, featuring: Karen Alkalay-Gut, Yehuda Amichai, Naim Araidi, Rachel Tzvia Back, Husein Jameel Bargouti, Tobias Berggren, Lev Berinsky, Ori Bernstein, Inger Christensen, Vivan Eden, Mohammed Ghanyim, Mikhail Grobman, Michel Haddad, Aloma Halter, Sarah Kirsch, Admiel Kosman, Aleksandr Kushner, Gabriel Levin, Simon Lichman, Valerio Magrelli, Salman Masalha, César Antonio Molina, Amir Or, Serge Pey, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Riva Rubin, Jay Shir, Dennis Silk, Ronny Someck, Sirkka Turkka, Bella Vernikova, Nurit Zarchi, Linda Zisquit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlus Translators of poetry: Robert Friend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn memoriam: Gabriel Preil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssays by Simon Sandbank on translating Shakespeare into Hebrew, Frans De Haes on Babel, and John Felstiner on translating Celan\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040747080,"sku":"61209693572","price":7.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/612_2_06082003_172219.gif?v=1417533570"},{"product_id":"mpt-5-galician-portuguese-troubadour-poetry","title":"MPT 5: Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poetry","description":"Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poetry translated by Richard Zenith\u003cbr\u003e+ Fernando Pessoa, Sophia Mello Breyner, Luis Cernuda, Rafael Alberti, Aurora Araujo Story, Silvia Tomasa Rivera, Vittorio Sereni, Umberto Saba, Kyprian Norwid, Anna Kamieñska, Jerzy Harasymowicz, Marcelijus Martinaitis, Paava Haavikko, Werner Aspenström, Lennart Sjögren, Ole Hessler, Heinrich Heine, Rose Ausländer, Michael Augustin, Rainer Franz Teuschl, Nikolay Gumilev, Ivan Bunin, Mikhail Aizenberg, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi, Munir Niazi\u003cbr\u003e+ Adam Czerniawski interviews\u003cbr\u003e+ Article by Douglas Robinson: Translation, Mystery and the Transformation of the Reader,\u003cbr\u003e+ Anthony Rudolf - short reviews, Peter Robinson on Bertolucci, Peter Mackridge on Ritsos, Roderick Beaton on Ritsos: In lieu of a Review, Christi Merrill on Edwin Gentzler","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040747120,"sku":"61309693572","price":8.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/613_2_06082003_172426.gif?v=1417533578"},{"product_id":"mpt-8-france-germany-greece-italy","title":"MPT 8: France, Germany, Greece, Italy","description":"Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Yves Bonnefoy, Michle Deguy, Eustache Deschamps, Jacques Dupin, Loius-René des Forêts, Guillevic, Henry-Jacques, Philippe Jaccottet, Max Jacob, Paul de Roux; plus Timothy Ades on poems from Perec's novel La Disparition, John Du Val on translating fabliaux, Felix Leakery on translating Baudelaire, Harry Guest on tranlating the music of French verse\u003cbr\u003eand Heinrich Heine, Georg Trakl, Odysseus Elytis, Patrizia Cavalli, Valerio Magrelli, Eugenio Montale, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Emilio García Gómez, Dan Pagis, Mirian Neiger, Ronny Someck, Ifegenija Simonovic, Ana Novac, Munir Niazi, Tugrul Tanyol.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews by Richard Smith, Bernard Howells, John Grande, Roderick Beaton, Peter Robinson, Anthony Rudolf.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOpinions by Lisa Sapinkopf and James Sutherland Smith\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040747164,"sku":"61509693572","price":8.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/615_2_06082003_173549.gif?v=1417533582"},{"product_id":"mpt-11-poetry-from-peru-and-russia","title":"MPT 11:  Poetry from Peru and Russia","description":"Daniel Weissbort introduces James Kirkup, the latest in our series of featured translators and notes that he raises general questions about translation that are answered both explicitly and through Kirkup's poetic practice.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is also a large  selection of Peruvian poets and a substantial overflow from Russian poets for whom room could not be found in MPT 10.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinally there is our usual range of poets, in alphabetical order according to their country of origin from Argentina to Uruguay and some reviews.  ","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040749628,"sku":"197997447082369","price":8.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_4440bc1e-ce11-4be1-b695-fc16dc097f2f.jpeg?v=1417533638"},{"product_id":"modern-poetry-in-translation-series-3-no8-getting-it-across","title":"Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.8) Getting it Across","description":"\u003ci\u003eGetting it Across\u003c\/i\u003e has to do with translation in a very fundamental sense: getting yourself across.  It features translations, original poems, essays and anecdotes that treat the many ways in which people communicate with one another.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca name=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eCover by Lucy Wilkinson.  Editorial by David and Helen Constantine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tBernardo Atxaga, two poems, translated by Margaret Jull Costa\u003cbr\u003e•\tGabriela Mistral, ‘The Foreigner’, translated by Arthur McHugh\u003cbr\u003e•\t\u003ca href=\"#e0\"\u003eNiyati Keni, Poetry in Four Dimensions\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tHelen and David Constantine, A Language without Words\u003cbr\u003e•\tAlyss Dye, ‘Word Blindness’\u003cbr\u003e•\tMoniza Alvi, ‘Writing at the Centre’\u003cbr\u003e•\tSaradha Soobrayen, One Foot in England and one Foot in Mauritius\u003cbr\u003e•\t\u003ca href=\"#e1\"\u003eOliver Reynolds, ‘Slip’\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tPascale Petit, ‘I was born in the Larzac’\u003cbr\u003e•\tAnnemarie Austin, ‘Dysphasias’\u003cbr\u003e•\t\u003ca href=\"#e2\"\u003eGregory Warren Wilson, three poems\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tPedro Serrano, four poems from ‘Still Life’, translated by Anna Crowe\u003cbr\u003e•\tStephanie Norgate, two haiku versions of Lucretius\u003cbr\u003e•\t\u003ca href=\"#e3\"\u003eRobin Fulton, four poems\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tMartha Kapos, two poems\u003cbr\u003e•\tCarole Satyamurti, three poems\u003cbr\u003e•\tHarry Martinson, five poems, translated by Robin Fulton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tJenny Joseph, An essay and five poems, after paintings by Jaume Prohens\u003cbr\u003e•\tMartti Hynynen, five poems, translated by Mike Horwood\u003cbr\u003e•\tLucy Hamilton, extracts from a sonnet version of Lalla Maghnia\u003cbr\u003e•\tTsvetanka Elenkova, six poems, translated by Jonathan Dunne\u003cbr\u003e•\tTugrul Tanyol, four poems, translated by Ruth Christie\u003cbr\u003e•\t\u003ca href=\"#e4\"\u003eJane Draycott, a translation of the first two sections of Pearl\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tNaomi Jaffa, The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry from Aldeburgh\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•               Taha Muhammad Ali, three poems, translated by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi and Gabriel Levin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tMichael Hamburger, four poems\u003cbr\u003e•\tRobert Walser, twelve poems, translated by Michael Hamburger\u003cbr\u003e•\tTwo Memorial Notes on Michael Hamburger\u003cbr\u003e•\tBy Anthony Rudolf\u003cbr\u003e•\tBy Iain Galbraith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tCharlie Louth on Don Paterson, Martyn Crucefix and Rilke\u003cbr\u003e•\tBelinda Cooke on The Translator as Writer (edited Susan Bassnett and Peter Bush)\u003cbr\u003e•\tJo Balmer, Shorter Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003chr size=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"e0\" title=\"e0\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNiyati Keni\u003cbr\u003ePoetry in Four dimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the UK, the first records of deaf people using manual signs to communicate date back to the sixteenth century. However, as signers were often geographically scattered, it wasn’t until the nineteenth century, when residential missions for the deaf brought them together in significant numbers, that a national Sign Language began to emerge. In 1880, an international conference of teachers of deaf children met in Milan and voted to ban the teaching of Sign throughout most of Europe as they believed it to be detrimental to the acquisition of spoken and written language in deaf children. The ‘oral’ method of teaching all children, deaf and hearing, remained the standard for almost a century until the late 1970s when it was finally acknowledged that this method was failing large numbers of deaf children who were leaving school with low levels of literacy. \u003cbr\u003eIn the latter half of the twentieth century extensive linguistic analysis was conducted on Sign Language (largely with American Sign Language), heralding a change in perception of Sign from a simple gestural code to a rich and expressive language. This, coupled with the general movement for ‘disability’ rights, has led to a shift in consciousness within both deaf and hearing society which has had two important results. Firstly, in the UK, British Sign Language (BSL) was finally recognised as an official national language in March 2003. Secondly, there has been an explosive evolution in Sign arts since the 1960s – notably in areas that have traditionally been considered ‘text based’, such as theatre and poetry.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn order to understand the impact of Sign on such media, it is necessary to examine the characteristics of the language more closely. \u003cbr\u003eSign languages are unique, in that they are visuo-spatial rather than verbal\/auditory.  In the UK, Sign is often thought of as simple, pictorial language that is a transliteration of spoken English. In fact Sign is an evolved language not a devised one, with its own very different syntax and grammar. It shows regional variation in the same way that spoken languages do and is rich in visual metaphor, (e.g. ‘ravenously hungry’ is signed as little fish swimming in the belly).\u003cbr\u003eBSL has a much smaller lexicon than spoken English but achieves greater expressivity by modifying individual signs. Though the basis of a given sign is the handshape, the meaning can be altered by the speed, style, location, direction and repetition of the movement as well as by non-manual aspects such as eye gaze, facial expression, mouth shape etc. This mimetic quality of Sign is easily demonstrated. For example, the same verb can be performed lazily, angrily, jauntily, so that a person can amble, stalk or strut where the basic sign is ‘walk’. Nouns can be similarly modified –  ‘tree’ is formed by one forearm standing upright, resting on top of and perpendicular to the other forearm, where the fingers are the tree branches. When the upright forearm sways or the fingers wriggle, the tree is depicted in stormy weather. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003chr size=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"e1\" title=\"e1\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOliver Reynolds\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\t\t\t       \u003cbr\u003e                                  \u003cem\u003eSlip\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn writing the word Fräulein\u003cbr\u003einstead of putting the umlaut\u003cbr\u003eabove the a\u003cbr\u003ehe had put it above the u\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe more she looked\u003cbr\u003eat that double-stroke\u003cbr\u003eabove the open letter\u003cbr\u003ethe more Freudian it grew\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003chr size=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"e2\" title=\"e2\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGregory Warren Wilson\u003cbr\u003eThree Poems\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cem\u003eThe Opacity of Strangeness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs soon as the April hailstorm ended\u003cbr\u003emy new Somali neighbour\u003cbr\u003ecrunched to the middle of his lawn\u003cbr\u003egathered up a handful of granules\u003cbr\u003eand took them back indoors\u003cbr\u003e. . . to pierce with a hot needle\u003cbr\u003eand thread on fuse wire like seed pearls.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWe only ever meet in passing,\u003cbr\u003echoosing limes in the corner shop,\u003cbr\u003epicking over the star anise, deferential\u003cbr\u003eas students at an evening class\u003cbr\u003epractising idioms, turns of phrase\u003cbr\u003e. . . hailstones in the ice-cube tray,\u003cbr\u003ematching pairs like moonstone earrings.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eToday, clipping the privet hedge,\u003cbr\u003eI felt his gaze on the nape on my neck,\u003cbr\u003ethat subtle sense the hairline has\u003cbr\u003e. . . how would topiary translate?\u003cbr\u003ebut the moment I turned he dissolved\u003cbr\u003elike sugar into milk, like shadow into dusk.\u003cbr\u003eWhenever he smiles something escapes me. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003chr size=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"e3\" title=\"e3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobin Fulton\u003cbr\u003eFour poems\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWood Anemones\u003c\/em\u003e                \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDays lengthen, spaces between trees\u003cbr\u003eare wide, long before being filled in.\u003cbr\u003eAs if to tremble is to live\u003cbr\u003ewindflower petals tremble, half in\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ehalf out of last year's grass tangles.\u003cbr\u003eYou'd think they'd arrived from far off\u003cbr\u003ebefore place has been made for them.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThey are small voices, are so small\u003cbr\u003ethey know they have nothing to say,\u003cbr\u003eare wise enough not to say it.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEach is too white to make much mark\u003cbr\u003eon the spreading landscape, too cool\u003cbr\u003eto give way as far as pastel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThat's the one place in the landscape\u003cbr\u003ewhere rhetoric is quite absent,\u003cbr\u003ewhere the landscape if it had things \u003cbr\u003eto say could find ways of saying them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWords like trout\u003c\/em\u003e                      \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ein glassy pool, abruptly\u003cbr\u003enot-there as I stare at their backs.\u003cbr\u003eI don't own words but I lose them.\u003cbr\u003eWords don't own me but they lose me.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e‘Arbitrary’ is a migrant,\u003cbr\u003eerratic, follows no seasons,\u003cbr\u003emost of the time hides somewhere else.\u003cbr\u003e‘Nutmeg’ is wary and jealous.\u003cbr\u003eIf ‘Muskat’ comes near me, ‘nutmeg’\u003cbr\u003egets lost in the air for ages.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThey have their habits, belong\u003cbr\u003e(wouldn't they say?) to the Fifth Day,\u003cbr\u003ewill inherit the earth when we\u003cbr\u003estep off, not one word in our mouths.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040750524,"sku":"9780954536787","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_e79db839-f4fd-4fd6-ac0a-96f556e05271.jpeg?v=1752237543"},{"product_id":"modern-poetry-in-translation-series-3-no3-metamorphoses","title":"Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.3) Metamorphoses","description":"\u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to extend the very idea of translation, and features texts which translators have transformed from a foreign original into something that is peculiarly their own.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHighlights include versions of Akhmatova done by outstanding contemporary poets for Poetry International at the South Bank in 2004, as well as Ingeborg Bachmann’s War Diary, a moving document of her early life in terrible times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume of MPT gives a voice to the unheard and creates living connections across frontiers, cultures, genres, mediums and ages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca name=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eCover by Lucy Wilkinson. Typesetting by Paul Dunn. Editorial by David and Helen Constantine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003e Akhmatova on the South Bank \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eRuth Borthwick: Anna of all the Russias: Translating Akhmatova    \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElaine Feinstein: An Evening for Akhmatova\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#e0\"\u003eColette Bryce: Six poems \u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSasha Dugdale: Five poems\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJo Shapcott: Three poems\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#e1\"\u003eGeorge Szirtes (with Veronika Krasnova): Six poems \u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarilyn Hacker: ‘For Akhmatova’\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Greening: ‘Coming Soon. Remastered from the Old Norse’\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#e2\"\u003eNeil Philip: ‘Twenty-one glosses on poems from The Greek Anthology’ \u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaul Howard: Versions of four sonnets by Giuseppe Belli\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTerence Dooley: A version of Raymond Queneau’s ‘La Pendule’\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKathleen Jamie: Hölderlin into Scots. Two poems\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#e3\"\u003eJosephine Balmer: The Word for Sorrow: a work begins its progress \u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003e Ingeborg Bachmann \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eKaren Leeder: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#e4\"\u003eMike Lyons: ‘War Diary’ \u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePatrick Drysdale and Mike Lyons: Five Bachmann poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSean O’Brien: A version of Canto V of Dante’s  Inferno\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCristina Viti:  Eros Alesi’s Fragments\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSarah Lawson and Malgorzata Koraszweska:  Six poems by Ann Kühn- Cichocka\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarilyn Hacker: Guy Goffette’s  ‘Construction Site of the Elegy’\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBelinda Cooke and Richard McCane: Six poems by Boris Poplavsky\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCecilia Rossi: Poems from Alejandra Pizarnik’s Works and Nights\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTerence Cave: A memorial note on Edith McMorran and a translation of  Aragon’s ‘C’\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaul Batchelor: An essay on Barry MacSweeney’s Apollinaire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntony Wood on Angela Livingstone’s Poems from Chevengur\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJosephine  Balmer on Cliff Ashcroft’s Dreaming of Still Water and PeterBoyle’s Eugenio Montejo \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaschalis Nikolaou on Philip Ramp’s Karouzos\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrancis Jones on Jan Twardowski (translated by Sarah Lawson and Malgorzata Koraszweska) and  A Fine Line: New Poetry from Central and Eastern Europe\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJosephine Balmer:Books Received.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca name=\"e0\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cb\u003eColette Bryce:Two Poems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnder a dark veil she wrung her hands…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnder a dark veil she wrung her hands...\u003cbr\u003e‘What makes you grieve like this?’\u003cbr\u003eI have made my lover drunk\u003cbr\u003ewith a bitter sadness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI'll never forget it. He left, reeling,\u003cbr\u003ehis mouth twisted, desolate...\u003cbr\u003eI ran downstairs, ran into the courtyard,\u003cbr\u003emanaged to catch him opening the gate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand begged him: ‘It was all a joke, don't leave,\u003cbr\u003eplease... I will lose my mind!’\u003cbr\u003eBut he only smiled, calmly, terribly,\u003cbr\u003eand said to me: ‘Get inside out of the wind.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1911\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHe was young, anxious, jealous…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was young, anxious, jealous. \u003cbr\u003eHis love was like the heat of the sun\u003cbr\u003ebut he killed my white bird\u003cbr\u003eas he could not bear her singing of the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSunset. Into the room he strides:\u003cbr\u003e‘Love, laugh, write poetry!’ he orders me.\u003cbr\u003eI buried the bird\u003cbr\u003eby the well, near the alder tree.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI promised him I wouldn't cry\u003cbr\u003ebut my heart set to a stone,\u003cbr\u003eand now it seems that everywhere\u003cbr\u003eI turn, I hear her sweet song.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca name=\"e1\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Szirtes (with Veronika Krasnova): From the Introduction to Six poems \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first and most difficult task of a translator is, as I see it, to understand the poem. I don’t mean the words, but somehow to see the ghost in the machine, to see what it is that gives that particular form of words life. Without this nothing can be done. I am aware that this sounds far too simple, because the process of reading is also the process of translation, so the life in the original begins to kindle, then overlap with, the life of the developing translation. The translator, if a poet, seeks that life and is used to seeing it develop in his or her own work. Nor is that ‘life’, if I may give the word its proper inverted commas at this stage, independent of all the elements that seem to comprise it. There is compromise and conversation throughout.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca name=\"e2\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Neil Philip’s: ‘Twenty-one glosses on poems from The Greek Anthology’ \u003c\/b\u003e.                                                                                \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntipholos\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Tereina was just a child,\u003cbr\u003eI said, ‘This one will break a few hearts\u003cbr\u003ewhen she grows up.’\u003cbr\u003eEveryone laughed—me too—\u003cbr\u003ebut now it’s all come true.\u003cbr\u003eJust to look at her\u003cbr\u003eburns me up,\u003cbr\u003eand look at her\u003cbr\u003eis all I can do.\u003cbr\u003eWhen I beg her\u003cbr\u003eto put me out of my misery,\u003cbr\u003eall she says is,\u003cbr\u003e‘I’m a virgin.’\u003cbr\u003eThis will be the death of me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBassus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTurn into a shower of gold, a swan,\u003cbr\u003ea bull, a bird? That’s too hard.\u003cbr\u003eI’ll leave such fancy tricks to Zeus,\u003cbr\u003eand woo Corinna with a credit card.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucilius\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll this stuff you buy—\u003cbr\u003eexfoliating scrub,\u003cbr\u003emoisturiser,\u003cbr\u003efoundation,\u003cbr\u003ehighlighter,\u003cbr\u003elippy,\u003cbr\u003eeye-shadow,\u003cbr\u003eeye-liner,\u003cbr\u003emascara,\u003cbr\u003ecoloured contacts,\u003cbr\u003ewash-in hair dye—\u003cbr\u003ewouldn’t a new face\u003cbr\u003ework out cheaper?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca name=\"e3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Josephine Balmer’s: The Word for Sorrow: a work begins its progess\u003c\/b\u003e.                                                                                \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne rainy spring day I was working on an initial translation from Tristia using the Perseus site’s on-line Latin  dictionary, when an electrical storm required me to log off . Turning to an old dictionary, bought at a village fete as a school-student, I noticed by chance an inscription on its fly-leaf which I must have seen many times over the years and yet barely registered: a name in faded ink and a date, early in 1900. Back on-line a few days later, I ran a search on the name, almost on a whim. The results were impressive: First World War documents and diaries relating to 1\/1st regiment of the Royal Gloucester Hussars, posted to Gallipoli in 1915, to the Hellespont, near Ovid’s own place of  exile and which, by coincidence, Ovid had just described crossing in the poem I was translating. Following link after link, more and more connections were revealed; old photos of the regiment lined up on Cheltenham Station just before leaving for the east, bringing parallels with Ovid’s famous poem describing his last night before exile. The eye-witness accounts detailing the sickness, deprivations and dangers of the Gallipoli campaign in which 50,000 Allied troops and 85,000 Turkish soldiers died, reminiscent of Ovid’s own powerful laments about his conditions of exile. And so The Word for Sorrow came about, versions of Ovid’s verse alongside original poems exploring the history of the old second-hand dictionary used to translate it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca name=\"e4\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Mike Lyons' Translation of Ingeborg Bachmann's: ‘War Diary’ \u003c\/b\u003e.                                                                                \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11 June. L. has fallen in love with an Englishman, he is tremendously tall and gangling and is called Bob. She says he is very rich and was brought up in Oxford. He’s all she can talk about. Yesterday she said she had just one wish, to get away from here and go to England. She’s hoping, I think, that he will marry her. But marriage between Austrian girls and Englishmen is prohibited by the military government. She says the hardships here will never end and that she has gone through too much, can’t take any more, and wants a life for herself. I can understand her only too well but get angry with her too, because she thinks I also ought to marry an Englishman and get away from here. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf course I want to get away, but only in order to study, and I don’t want to get married and not even to an Englishman, just for the sake of a few tins of food and some silk stockings. Most of the Englishmen here are very nice and decent, I think. But I am much too young. Arthur and Bill are really very nice and we talk and laugh a lot together. In the garden we often play Tailor, Tailor, Lend Me Your Scissors and Look Behind You . Arthur keeps giving Heinerle chocolate, and a few days ago he called on Mummy, who is still in bed, and put tea and biscuits onto her bedspread. She calls him ‘Redilocks’, because he has such ginger hair, and likes him best. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI think he also is in love with L., Bill is too, but Arthur more so, and I think too that Arthur is terribly jealous of Bob. Bob is quite standoffish. We once exchanged a couple of words but never again and even then it didn’t amount to much: it was just to thank him for letting L. have the car so that she could fetch Mummy from hospital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14 June. My mind is in a whirl still. Jack Hamesh was here again, this time he came in a jeep. Everyone in the village was gawping of course and S. came across the stream twice to look into the garden. I took him into the garden because Mummy is in bed upstairs. We sat on the bench and to begin with I was trembling again so badly that he must have thought I was mad or had something on my conscience or whatever. And I just don’t know why. I no longer know what we talked about first, but then all at once it was about books, about Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig and Schnitzler and Hofmannsthal. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI was so happy, he knows everything, and he told me he would never have thought he might meet a young girl in Austria who in spite of her Nazi upbringing had read all that. And suddenly everything was quite different, and I told him all about the books. He told me that he was taken to England in 1938 in a Kindertransport with other Jewish children. Actually he was already 18 years old at the time, but an uncle managed to arrange it, his parents were already dead. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow I know too why he speaks such good German. Then he joined the British army and in the occupation zones lots of former Germans and Austrians are now working in the offices of the FSS, on account of the language and because they know the conditions in the country better. We talked till evening, and he kissed my hand before he left. Nobody ever kissed my hand before. I am so mixed up and happy, and when he’d gone I climbed the apple tree in our garden, it was already dark, and I cried my eyes out and thought to myself that I would never wash my hand again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJack comes every day now, and I’ve never talked so much in my life. We talk mostly about Weltanschauung and history. He’s very good at explaining, and I’m no longer in the least embarrassed by him. I always ask him if it’s something I haven’t yet heard about. At the moment we’re doing socialism and communism (and of course if Mummy were to hear the word ‘communism’ she would faint!), but you must have detailed knowledge of everything and study. I’m reading Marx’s Capital and a book by Adler. I’ve told Jack that I’d like to study philosophy, and he takes me very seriously and thinks that is right for me. But I’ve kept quiet about the poems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040750824,"sku":"9780954536732","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_9f70c4b0-eb28-488b-b088-4821d55ea06b.jpeg?v=1752237543"},{"product_id":"mpt-13-greek-poetry","title":"MPT 13: Greek Poetry","description":"Greek Poetry edited by David Ricks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCP Cavafy, Anghelos Sikelianos, KG Karyotakis, George Seferis, Andreas Embiricos, Nicolas Calas, Odysseus Elytis, Nikos Gatsos, Nikos Karouzos, Manolis Anagnostakis, Nikos Fokas, Titos Patrikios, Yorgos Ioannou, Andreas Angelakis, Nikos-Alexis Aslanoglou, Yannis Kondos, Michalis Ganas, Nasos Vayenas, Rhea Galanaki, Argyris Chionis, Haris Vlavianos, Alexis Stamatis, Stathis Gourgouris\u003cbr\u003e+ Review by David Ricks\u003cbr\u003e+ Sappho, The Greek Anthology, Guillaume Apollinaire, François Villon, Georg Bühren, Goether, Güner Grass, Gerrit Achterberg, Saadi Youssef, Máirtí Ó Direáin, Giorgio Caproni, Eugenio Montale, Amjad Nasser, 2 Korean poets, Cernuda and Paz - a dialogue, Francisco Hinojosa, Jan Twardowski, Federico García Lorca, José Angel Valente, Sven Smedberg, Walid Khazendar, Cu Huy Can, Hguyen Du - Kieu\u003cbr\u003e+ reviews by Michael Trapp, Daniel Weissbort, Harry Guest, Richard Smith, David Hook, David Tipton, Anthony Rudolf, Richard McKane, Jen Hofer, Christi Merrill, Elena Reeves\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040750996,"sku":"61909693572","price":8.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/619_2_06082003_174634.gif?v=1752237218"},{"product_id":"mpt-18-european-voices","title":"MPT 18: European Voices","description":"European Voices:\u003cbr\u003eApollinaire, Bernardo Atxaga, Yves Bonnefoy, Volker Braun, Camões, Cavafy, Paul Celan, William Cliff, MM Dizda, Johanna Ekström, HM Enzensberger, Gerhardt Fritsch, Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Hédi Kaddour, Uwe Kolbe, Reiner Kunze, H Leyvik, Antonio Machado, Mallarmé and Verlaine, Claire Malroux, Mayakovsky, Eugenio Montale, Henrik Nordbrandt, Boris Pasternak, Cesare Pavese, Halina Poswiatowska, Pushkin, Salvatore Quasimodo, Jacques Réda, Umberto Saba, Egon Schiele, Antun Branko Simic, Paul Snoek, Luís Amorim de Sousa, Alain Suied, Jesper Svenbro, Göran Printz-Pahlson, Lörinc Szabó, Jan Twardowski, Giuseppi Ungaretti, Mihai Ursachi, Liliana Ursu, Paul Valéry, Aleksandr Wat, Mehmet Yashin, Andrea Zanzotto.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e+ Ten lyrics from the Greek Anthology, Three Polish Poets, Three Russian Poets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e+ Translators of poetry: Peter Viereck (by Daniel Weissbort)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e+ Reviews by Jonathan Wilcox and Marianna Spanak\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040751024,"sku":"9780953382446","price":8.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/623_2_06082003_175552.gif?v=1752237218"},{"product_id":"modern-poetry-in-translation-series-3-no10-the-big-green-issue","title":"Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.10) The Big Green Issue","description":"\u003ci\u003eMigration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eat the very first stirring\u003cbr\u003emy airtight, upright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003esarcophagus breaks \u003cbr\u003einto pieces,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eeach fragment starting to turn green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eeven as it falls …\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartii Hynynen, translated from the Finnish by Mike Horwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eModern Poetry in Translation Third Series, No. 10\u003c\/i\u003e is dedicated to the beauty, abundance and plight of Mother Earth. This autumn MPT will be truly internationalist. Work from all quarters, out of as many languages as possible, will demonstrate an obvious fact: on Planet Earth we sink or swim together. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe arguments will be polemical, saying the things that must be said, but also celebratory, so that we see, yet again, what it is we risk losing.  Poetry, translated and original, essays, anecdotes, photographs, and illustrations, all of the highest quality, show up wrong attitudes and the deeds they encourage; but also indicate how we might live better in the living world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFounded by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort in 1966 and now edited by David and Helen Constantine – based in Oxford; Modern Poetry in Translation is Britain’s most important poetry translation publication. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMPT publishes translations, original poems, reviews and short essays that address such characteristic signs of our times as exile, the movement of peoples, the search for asylum, and the speaking of languages outside their native home.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditorial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBewketu Seyoum, poems, translated by the author and Chris Beckett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartti Hynynen, five poems, translated by Mike Horwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOliver Reynolds, ‘Rosenegg’s Night’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWaldo Williams, ‘Spring 1946’, translated by Jason Walford Davies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePascale Petit, four poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRocco Scotellaro, poems, translated by Alen Prowle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Saxton, sonnets from Hesiod’s Calendar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna Lewis, ‘The Wash-house’, from the Mabinogion \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoão de Jesus Paes Loureiro, two poems, translated by Stefan Tobler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntônio Moura, three poems, translated by Stefan Tobler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary-Ann Constantine, ‘Notre Dame de Port Blanc’, from the Breton ‘Itron Varia ar Porz-Gwenn’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTerry Gifford, Ted Hughes, Translation and Ecopoetics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePauline Stainer, six poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeff Nosbaum, ‘Cape Weavers’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSiriol Troup, three  poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDante, Purgatory, Canto 11, 1-36, translated by Mark Leech\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWulf Kirsten, ‘village’, translated by Dennis Tomlinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWulf Kirsten, ‘Bleak Place’, translated by Stefan Tobler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElisha Porat, three poems, translated by Cindy Eisner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Cluysenaar, two poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePedro Serrano, ‘Swallows’, translated by Anna Crowe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna Crowe, ‘The Mysterious Starling’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNaomi Jaffa, Aldeburgh 2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYi Sha, five poems, translated by Simon Patton and Tao Naikan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntjie Krog, ‘the unhomely’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFarzaneh Khojandi, two poems, translated by Jo Shapcott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRose Scooler, ‘Mica Parade’, translated by Sibyl Ruth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTomas Venclova, three poems, translated by Ellen Hinsey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhotos from Durham?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFranz Hodjak, six poems, translated by Peter Oram\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZsuzsa Beney, five poems, translated by George Szirtes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCesare Pavese, five poems, translated by David Douglas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, five poems, translated by Bill Johnston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJerzy Harasymowicz, four poems, translated by Maria Rewakowicz, with illustrations by Swava Harasymowicz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEugene Dubnov, two poems, translated, with the author, by Vernon Scannell, Anne Ridler and John Heath-Stubbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCecilia Rossi, on translations of Pura López-Colomé, Dulce María Loynaz and Mercedes Roffé\u003cbr\u003ePaschalis Nikolaou on Richard Burns’s The Blue Butterfly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBelinda Cooke on Sasha Dugdale’s Elena Shvarts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Constantine on Poems from Guantánamo and two Hafan Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJosephine Balmer, Further Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Extracts \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Rocco Scotellaro, Poems, Translated by Allen Prowle \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   Rocco Scotellaro never saw his poems published.  In 1954, the year after his cruelly premature death from a heart attack at the age of thirty, E Fatto Giorno (Day Break), edited by his friend Carlo Levi, was published by Mondadori, and was awarded the Viareggio prize.  He was the gifted son of a very poor family from Lucania, a mountainous and impoverished region of the Italian mezzogiorno.  His parents made great sacrifices so that he could enrol at Rome University to study law, but the war and then the death of his father forced him to leave without completing his degree.  He was of that young generation which saw the post-war years as a real opportunity to establish a just and egalitarian society, and to improve the material lives of the poor.  At 23, he was elected as socialist mayor of his home town, Tricarico, and became actively engaged in the struggle for land reform.  Inevitably, this brought him into conflict with the landowners, many of whom had welcomed his election believing that this son of a shoemaker could be easily manipulated.  Victim of a political vendetta, he was imprisoned in Matera.  The charges of corruption were spurious and he was acquitted after two months.  He resigned as mayor and left for Portici, near Naples, where for some three years he studied at a research centre in agrarian economics.  It was in Portici that he died.\u003cbr\u003e   One hears in these poems a voice, or rather, voices that had scarcely reached the ears of any public, let alone one given to reading poems.  They narrate an archaic rural way of life dominated by the seasons, the harshness of place and weather, the need to feed one’s family, but the sense of timelessness is sometimes disrupted by poems which relate contemporary events, such as the political defeat of 18 April 1948, the discovery that the agrarian reform plan had handed the peasants largely uncultivable strips of rocky ground, the death of his brother-in-law in the Greek expedition, the retreat of campaigning field- hands from the bosses’ bully boys.  Scotellaro, political activist that he was, is no populist poet.  He lets us share his ambivalence towards a moment in history when the past and the possible future are in contention.  He was never able to commit himself utterly to an intellectual environment where reform and political change were debated; emotional ties to an ancestral past, whose limitations and inertia so frustrated him, frequently brought him back from the city.  The muleteer’s daughter was ultimately more difficult to leave than the city girlfriend.  His poetry is encamped in that border country where Raymond Williams also lived:  pitched between attraction and repulsion, affection and irritation.  The quarrel with others would have inspired, as Yeats claimed, a discourse of rhetoric, something Scotellaro no doubt kept for the hustings and public meetings.  It was out of the quarrel with himself that he wrote many of the most telling poems in E Fatto Giorno.\u003cbr\u003e                                                          \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e The violets are children with bare feet \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe leaves are fresh on the almond trees,\u003cbr\u003espring water rains from stone walls;\u003cbr\u003etrotting lightly, the donkeys choose\u003cbr\u003ethe friendlier of the river’s banks;\u003cbr\u003ethe girls with the darkest eyes\u003cbr\u003eclamber on the squeaking cart, aloof.\u003cbr\u003eMarch is a baby, laughing already, in its swaddling clothes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd you can forget the winter,\u003cbr\u003ewho, bent by bundles of wood,\u003cbr\u003ehave told your beads,\u003cbr\u003emile after freezing mile,\u003cbr\u003eto roast your face by the fire. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow ticks come back to the horses,\u003cbr\u003ein the stables flies stir the air,\u003cbr\u003eand children with bare feet\u003cbr\u003echarge upon clumps of violet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Already you can smell the apples on the air \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlready you can smell the apples on the air\u003cbr\u003eand you can sleep the deepest sleep,\u003cbr\u003eno moth flies in \u003cbr\u003eto flutter round the lamp.\u003cbr\u003eBut I have never heard, in late October,\u003cbr\u003eso many unfamiliar voices\u003cbr\u003ereach me from the street;\u003cbr\u003emy father was strapping up my trunk,\u003cbr\u003emy sister repairing my clothes,\u003cbr\u003eand I was having to leave to study\u003cbr\u003ein a city which I did not know!\u003cbr\u003eI felt my spirit turn to milk\u003cbr\u003ewhen my friends spoke consoling words,\u003cbr\u003enot moving, lonely and shy, from their doors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps now I ought to leave in silence,\u003cbr\u003ewithout a backward glance at anyone;\u003cbr\u003eI’ll seek some trade or other.\u003cbr\u003eHere, a rag flutters on its threads,\u003cbr\u003eand leaves from the apples scenting the air\u003cbr\u003eare settling on my head.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Forlorn cuckoo, your call keeps us awake \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll round the brown mountains\u003cbr\u003eyour colour has crept back,\u003cbr\u003eour old September friend.\u003cbr\u003eYou’ve settled in among us.\u003cbr\u003eWhen, fleeing the burnt stubble\u003cbr\u003eof our fields, castaway crickets\u003cbr\u003escreech at the doors,\u003cbr\u003eour women have heard you quite close.\u003cbr\u003eFrom the vaulted ceilings hang\u003cbr\u003estrings of dried figs and green tomatoes;\u003cbr\u003ethere’s a sack of hard wheat,\u003cbr\u003ea heap of felled almonds.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForlorn cuckoo,\u003cbr\u003eyour call\u003cbr\u003ekeeps us awake:\u003cbr\u003eYes, we’ll trudge back along the paths \u003cbr\u003eand, tomorrow, get down to work,\u003cbr\u003ewhen water streams yellow again\u003cbr\u003eunder the furrows,\u003cbr\u003eand the wind billows\u003cbr\u003eour coats in the cupboards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e To the muleteer’s daughter \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI cannot live beside you any longer,\u003cbr\u003esomething stifles my voice.\u003cbr\u003eYou are the muleteer’s daughter\u003cbr\u003eand you take away my breath.\u003cbr\u003eBecause below us, in the stable,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Mark Leech\u003cbr\u003e‘Oil’\u003cbr\u003eA version of Dante, Purgatory canto xix, 1-36 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDante’s dream encounter with the Siren is a sudden lurch in the otherwise upward progress of the Purgatorio. Standing alone, it captures the nightmarish quality of humankind’s addiction to its own destruction – yet at the same time offers some hope of escape. This version was written alongside similar re-imaginings of several Old English poems. Like many translations, it is an experiment in bringing the perspective and authority of a particular text directly to bear on a modern problem, and vice versa, while keeping the framework of the original vision intact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Oil \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the day had given up the world\u003cbr\u003eto the hard moon, thrashed by Earth\u003cbr\u003eor Saturn, or some other punisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe hour that prophets foretell the rising\u003cbr\u003eof great stars out east down roads\u003cbr\u003ethat flare with falling shells\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea woman came staggering to me\u003cbr\u003eeye-pained, foot-bound, hands\u003cbr\u003eyellowed with a cancer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy gaze upon her membraned flesh\u003cbr\u003ejerked her straight, as from a morgue\u003cbr\u003eher tongue slopping free\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eher body stiff like one about to fall.\u003cbr\u003eHer face washed in a flood of colour –\u003cbr\u003esome lust, or blood, had burst its banks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo her story was released, and she\u003cbr\u003ekeened a note that held me closer\u003cbr\u003ethan any prayer-built hope:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘I the Siren, sweet in my throat,\u003cbr\u003esweet on the sea, bring crude men\u003cbr\u003eto ruin, spilt on rocks and currents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWandering Ulysses was trapped in my slick:\u003cbr\u003eany man who’s burned for me is caught – \u003cbr\u003eno engine can undo my grip.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt her pause a lady, cold, stepped\u003cbr\u003ebetween us. Her icy breath thinned\u003cbr\u003ethe Siren’s spell to air, invisible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘She’s got him! He’s bending to her lips!’\u003cbr\u003eMy guide was closing in, eyes fixed\u003cbr\u003eon her white shroud. He grabbed the Siren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand laid her open, the belly slack, \u003cbr\u003estinking, choking me, waking me\u003cbr\u003ewith poisoned air. My eyes fell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eon my guide. ‘Three times I’ve called on you\u003cbr\u003eto wake!’ he said. ‘Now rise: this path\u003cbr\u003ewill take us on to lighter skies.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe mules are restless, though asleep,\u003cbr\u003eand your father, snoring nearby,\u003cbr\u003ehas not yet clambered on his cart\u003cbr\u003eto beat away the stars with his whip.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Anna Lewis\u003cbr\u003eThe Wash-house\u003cbr\u003ePoems from the Mabinogion \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis sequence is drawn from the story of Blodeuedd, found in the Mabinogion, the major collection of Medieval Welsh tales.  Blodeuedd is often thought to represent the natural world in human form; connections and tensions between humans and the natural environment run throughout the story.  The sequence is told from the imagined perspective of Blodeuedd’s maid.  Blodeuedd is created from wild flowers by magic, to be the bride for a young nobleman, but begins an affair with another man, who encourages her to kill her husband and appropriate his land.  Their attempt at murder fails when her husband transforms into an eagle, and flies out of sight.  Blodeuedd’s husband is later reinstated by his uncle, a magician, who then pursues Blodeuedd, and turns her into an owl as punishment for her disloyalty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 3 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAutumn shakes into winter,\u003cbr\u003eand we all settle down to our snow-pace:\u003cbr\u003eslow hours under candle-light, patching and darning \u003cbr\u003ethe woollens, salting and curing small game.\u003cbr\u003eI don’t see so much of the girl – \u003cbr\u003eher husband away, she keeps her door bolted,\u003cbr\u003ewon’t meet my eye when we pass in the halls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut we’ve had her pegged, in the wash-rooms and kitchens,\u003cbr\u003esince the first snowdrop came shouldering up through the frost;\u003cbr\u003esince the daffodils, all statuesque and deep blonde,\u003cbr\u003eand the plum trees, scattering petals\u003cbr\u003eover the still-rigid ground.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt gets no warmer, \u003cbr\u003esunlight shallow and brief on the field.\u003cbr\u003eHer door bangs at midnight, and again before dawn;\u003cbr\u003eshe sleeps later, talks faster, flagrant\u003cbr\u003eas the clematis limbering over her window.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e João de Jesus Paes Loureiro\u003cbr\u003eTwo poems\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Stefan Tobler \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoão de Jesus Paes Loureiro was born in a small town in Pará, in the eastern Amazon region, and is a poet and professor of aesthetics, the history of art and Amazonian culture at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA). His first collection Tarefa was published in 1964, just before the military coup that brought a dictatorship to Brazil. Tarefa was confiscated and Paes Loureiro imprisoned for months. A prolific poet, his collections include the trilogy Cantares Amazônicos which has been translated into German and Italian. The focus moves from the Amazon's indigenous culture and history in the first book Porantim (1979), via increasing rural and cultural devastation in Deslendário (1981) to a large Amazonian city, Belém, and the many dispossessed who end up there, in  Altar em Chamas (1982), the collection from which 'A Criminal Recipe' and 'Workers' are taken.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e A Criminal Recipe \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLet him be born.\u003cbr\u003eThe bed of poverty\u003cbr\u003e\t\tis a good measure . . .\u003cbr\u003eHe’ll grow up without milk\u003cbr\u003eand without greens.\u003cbr\u003eThe mud below the house’s stilts\u003cbr\u003e\t\tis bound to give him\u003cbr\u003ethe tides’ inheritance of worms.\u003cbr\u003eIt’s a good thing he’s got the samba groove.\u003cbr\u003eHe won’t have schools\u003cbr\u003e\t\t\tnor a childhood.\u003cbr\u003eAnd youth, would be better it didn’t blossom\u003cbr\u003ebecause the stem of his love\u003cbr\u003e\t\t\t        has been castrated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe day on which he goes out\u003cbr\u003e\t\t\t          partner of the moon\u003cbr\u003e(revolver in his belt\u003cbr\u003e\t\t       and a decision in his eyes)\u003cbr\u003ehe’ll be meat, peppered with bullets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Zsuzsa Beney\u003cbr\u003eFive poems\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by George Szirtes \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZsuzsa Beney, Hungarian poet, essayist and surgeon,  was born in Budapest in 1930. Her first book of poems, Tüzföld (Fire-earth) appeared in 1972 with an introduction by Sándor Weöres, one the greatest Hungarian poets of the century. She produced a book of essays the next year and the first of her two novels in 1974. Her 1993 book of essays, Szó és csend között, was published in the UK by Mare's Nest as Between Sound and Silence, translated by Mark Griffiths. The essays in it are mainly philosophical and mystical meditations following the death of her husband. Her poems are contemplative, often preoccupied by suffering and the borders of existence and non-existence. She continued as a surgeon to her seventieth birthday. She died in July 2006.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e The River\u003cbr\u003e(A folyó) \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThrough what sluices has it swept\u003cbr\u003ebefore it finally reached my home\u003cbr\u003eof clay soil and carved its crumbling bed?\u003cbr\u003eEternity humming from its dark source.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe non-transparent water shows time\u003cbr\u003eonly its wrinkled silk surface.\u003cbr\u003eMirror images of sparkling light.\u003cbr\u003eWaves sliding one under the other.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBroken tiles in the mirror,\u003cbr\u003ecracking, and still another glass,\u003cbr\u003ebetween was and will be, I became \/ I’ll not be,\u003cbr\u003erunning water’s burning catharsis.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Dust\u003cbr\u003e(Por) \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThere’s nothing I hate more than dust\u003cbr\u003ein corners of the room, in understanding.\u003cbr\u003eBut I can no longer clean everything.\u003cbr\u003eI’ve strength enough for work, but not for cleanness.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI live in half-light. Literally half-light.\u003cbr\u003eMy eyes no longer tolerate the sun.\u003cbr\u003eMy heart can’t manage all your empathies.\u003cbr\u003eI don’t look into death’s eyes unafraid.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBecause there are no gates of death, just slow\u003cbr\u003egatherings of dust. Mud and dirt cover our lives.\u003cbr\u003eThey gather in the corners of our souls.\u003cbr\u003eWe can’t step into the light for fear of drowning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Into the spider’s web…\u003cbr\u003e(A pókhálóba…) \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGod entangled in the spider’s web\u003cbr\u003ebecomes immobile, a dummy,\u003cbr\u003ewoven into easily-broken\u003cbr\u003eglittering threads of thought.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHis trembling wings drop off, those lights,\u003cbr\u003ethose phosphorescences that reflect each other.\u003cbr\u003eHe sinks into the darkness of our twilight,\u003cbr\u003einto the harbours of despair.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFor just one minute liberate yourself,\u003cbr\u003eerupt from our minds if only for a moment.\u003cbr\u003eLet it be you that leads us through the gates\u003cbr\u003eof death to the unknown far side of being.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040751056,"sku":"9780955906404","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_e91338ec-5aff-4156-9b4c-3c13882ce590.jpeg?v=1752237542"},{"product_id":"modern-poetry-in-translation-series-3-no4-between-the-languages","title":"Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.4) Between the Languages","description":"\u003ci\u003eBetween the Languages\u003c\/i\u003e is concerned with questions of language and identity. It features work by Itzik Manger, Dimitris Tsaloumas, Gwyneth Lewis … Poets whose mother tongue is itself an issue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso poems by \u003cb\u003eBrecht\u003c\/b\u003e on exile.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetween the Languages\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on poets who, by choice or by force of circumstances, move among the languages. Must a poet write in the mother tongue? Will a second language serve just as well? We look at poets who translate themselves. Others who might but won’t. Others who defend their mother tongues by refusing all translation. Highlights include the poetry of Dimitris Tsaloumas, who moves between Melbourne and Leros, and Itzig Manger (1901-69) who wrote in Yiddish in his wanderings across the world. This volume of MPT asks questions about language and identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the featured poets are: Bertolt Brecht, Dimitris Tsaloumas, Gwyneth Lewis, Itzik Manger…  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca name=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eCover by Lucy Wilkinson.  Editorial by David and Helen Constantine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#e0\"\u003eKapka Kassabova Polyglot Peregrinations \u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eAmarjit Chandan Inhabiting two Planets\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eItsik Manger Four Poems, with three translations and a literal version, introduced by Helen Beer\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#e1\"\u003eMichael Hamburger Afterthoughts on the Mug’s Game\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eMary-Ann Constantine ‘To let in the light’: Gwyneth Lewis’s Poetry of Transition. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eGwyneth Lewis Two Poems, translated by Mary-Ann Constantine and the author \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eChoman Hardi ‘Switching Languages: a Hindrance or an Opportunity?’\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ePoet to Poet The Scotland-China Project.  Introduction by Polly Clark\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eAntonella Anedda Five Poems, translated by Jamie McKendrick\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eDimitris Tsaloumas Four Poems, translated, with an introduction, by Helen Constantine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#e2\"\u003eExtracts from Mourid Barghouti’s Midnight, translated by Radwa Ashour\u003c\/a\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#e3\"\u003e'Dear Fahimeh’, translated by Hubert Moore and Nasrin Parvaz\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eExtracts from Sherko Berkes’s The Valley of Butterfly, translated by Choman Hardi\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eIngeborg Bachmann Ten Poems, translated by Patrick Drysdale and Mike Lyons, with an introduction by Karen Leeder\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eRimbaud Versions of Three Poems, by Martin Bennett\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eBertolt Brecht Ten Poems of Exile, translated by Timothy Adès\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eIvan Radoev Three Poems, translated by Kapka Kassabova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eAnthony Rudolf ‘Any Ideas?’ Calling all Poetry Detectives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eJosephine Balmer A Note on Reviewing Translation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eOlivier Burckhardt on Claire Malroux’s Birds and Bison, translated by Marilyn Hacker\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSasha Dugdale on  Ileana Malancioiu’s, After the Raising of Lazarus, translated by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003chr size=\"1\" color=\"a0a0a0\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca name=\"e0\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cb\u003eKapka Kassabova\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolyglot Peregrinations\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA foreign language is a paradoxical escape: it takes you out of yourself, but also back into yourself to places you didn’t know existed. To translate is to travel this unpredictable landscape. To live between languages, as in my case, is to be constantly moving over untrodden territory, negotiating internal and external boundaries of identity and meaning. I was born an escapist and a traveller, which is why I was gripped from the moment my Russian teacher wrote on the blackboard a funny-looking sentence in Cyrillic, then turned her bespectacled face to the class and said: ‘Today, we are going to learn Russian.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI was eight. The year was 1981, the place Sofia. Leonid Brezhnev, the last serious Soviet dictator, died soon after. My Russian teacher wept into her black shawl while we stood freezing in the school courtyard, listening to records of Soviet army songs. By then, I understood the songs. I also understood, with a child’s instinct, that something was wrong with us, with these songs blaring out of megaphones, with the way we had to understand them. So, as an unconscious act of protest, I tried to be bad at Russian. I gave idiotic answers in class, infuriating the poor teacher. Being an idiot was unrewarding, but I persevered. But it wasn’t to be. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne day I found myself entertaining my little sister with a slide-show of Russian stories. I had to translate as well as I could for her benefit. My mother came in at one point, and praised me for my translation. I was secretly chuffed. I kept up my slide-shows, ostensibly for my sister. I started looking up Russian words in the dictionary, and that is how I stopped wanting to be bad at Russian – being good at it was much more fun. Around that time, I started writing poetry in Bulgarian – about railway stations and going away. I also read Evgeni Onegin in a bilingual edition, and was transfixed by the miracle of sustained rhyming translation. Gradually, books became the centre of my world. I stopped showing my sister slide-shows because I was too busy reading. It was a way of forgetting what was wrong with us, and travelling to other worlds in the only possible way. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca name=\"e1\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Hamburger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfterthoughts on the Mug's Game\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy first translations may have been my way of bridging the displacement from that country, separation from the relatives and friends left behind, from the open spaces around Kladow to which I owed my first moments of freedom and exhilaration, the diverse animals I had collected and looked after there, and what had been my family’s culture – though it was music, not language, that was my earliest love in the arts, and one practised by my father and mother.  Had I been a few years older when the displacement occurred, I might well have had to return to my first language as a writer of poems.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy friend Franz Wurm, born in Prague into a German-speaking family also fluent in Czech, was shipped to England in a children’s transport at the age of thirteen and educated at an English boarding-school, then Oxford.  Because, unlike me, he had lost his immediate family, when told by an English friend that he would never make a good English poet, he reverted not to German but to French for his early verse – his German lost to him by association with the more grievous loss.  ‘It was only then that I turned to German, which for quite a while came from my reading rather than from the language spoken at home,’ he writes in a letter.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was then moved to re-emigrate to a German-speaking part of Switzerland, a neutral country by association, and became a German-language poet as linguistically inventive and idiosyncratic as his friend Paul Celan – who was even more multilingual by circumstance, but clung to German for poetry when he talked and corresponded with his wife and son in French, out of his very obsession with his mother tongue and the wound inflicted on his family and friends under German occupation.  Erich Fried, one of the most widely read German-language poets of his time, came to England at the age of sixteen, remained resident there, but never became wholly bilingual other than as a translator of texts ranging from Shakespeare to Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath.  Many other cases could be cited, each distinct for reasons too intricate to be unravelled here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen towards the age of thirty, I was induced to write unambitious critical pieces in German, they proved acceptable, though my syntax, like my attitudes, tended to be more English than German and my grammar could be shaky; but the attempt to function bilingually, at least in prose, precipitated an identity crisis for a year or two, leaving me stranded in a no-man’s land. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca name=\"e2\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cb\u003eMourid Barghouti\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExtracts from Midnight\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated by Radwa Ashour\u003c\/b\u003e                                                                         \u003cbr\u003e       \u003cbr\u003eMy grandfather, still harbouring the illusion \u003cbr\u003ethat all is well with the world,\u003cbr\u003efills his countryside pipe\u003cbr\u003efor the last time\u003cbr\u003ebefore the advent of the helmets and bulldozers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the bulldozer’s teeth\u003cbr\u003emy grandfather’s cloak gets hooked.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe bulldozer retreats a few yards,\u003cbr\u003eempties its load,\u003cbr\u003ecomes back to fill its huge fork \u003cbr\u003eand has never had enough.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty times, the bulldozer \u003cbr\u003ecomes and goes, \u003cbr\u003emy grandfather’s cloak still hooked on it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the dust and smoke\u003cbr\u003ehad cleared from the house that had been standing there \u003cbr\u003eand as I was staring at the new emptiness\u003cbr\u003eI saw my grandfather \u003cbr\u003ewearing his cloak,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewearing the very same cloak,\u003cbr\u003enot one that was similar\u003cbr\u003ebut the very same.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe hugged me and maintained a silent gaze\u003cbr\u003eas if his look \u003cbr\u003eordained the rubble to become a house,\u003cbr\u003erestored the curtains to the windows,\u003cbr\u003ebrought my grandmother back to her armchair, \u003cbr\u003eand retrieved her coloured pills,\u003cbr\u003eput back the sheets on the bed,\u003cbr\u003ethe lights on the ceiling,\u003cbr\u003ethe pictures on the walls,\u003cbr\u003eas if his look brought the handles back to the doors\u003cbr\u003eand the balconies to the stars,\u003cbr\u003eas if it made us resume our dinner,\u003cbr\u003eas if the world had not collapsed, \u003cbr\u003eas if heaven had ears and eyes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe went on staring at the emptiness.\u003cbr\u003eI said:\u003cbr\u003eWhat shall we do after the soldiers leave?\u003cbr\u003eWhat will he do after the soldiers leave?\u003cbr\u003eHe slowly clenched his fist\u003cbr\u003erecapturing a boxer’s resolve in his right hand,\u003cbr\u003ehis coarse bronze hand,\u003cbr\u003ethe hand which had tamed the thorny slope,\u003cbr\u003ethe hand which holds his hoe lightly\u003cbr\u003eand with ease like prayer,\u003cbr\u003ehis hand which can split a tree stump with a single blow,\u003cbr\u003ehis hand open for forgiveness,\u003cbr\u003ehis hand closed on sweets to surprise his grandchildren,\u003cbr\u003ehis hand amputated \u003cbr\u003eyears ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca name=\"e3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cb\u003eDear Fahimeh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated by Hubert Moore and Nasrin Parvez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poem, originally in Farsi, is for Fahimeh Taghadosi, executed in Iran, 1982. The writer is unknown. Farkhondeh Ashena, who recently escaped from Iran, heard it when she was in solitary confinement, and memorised it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDear Fahimeh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat day,\u003cbr\u003ethat hot day in July,\u003cbr\u003ewhen the Evin loudspeakers\u003cbr\u003ecalled out your beautiful name and your lips\u003cbr\u003esmiled, your eyes said to your friends,\u003cbr\u003e'So today is the day.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou went and your walk\u003cbr\u003ewas a perfume filling the corridor.\u003cbr\u003eEveryone gasped, everyone asked with their eyes,\u003cbr\u003e'Is today then the day?' The Pasdar\u003cbr\u003eflung back an answer : 'Where is her bag?\u003cbr\u003eWhere are her veil, her socks, her money?'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rumour went round that you'd given a sign\u003cbr\u003ethat yes, today was the day :\u003cbr\u003e'I don't need my food,' you had said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo tonight is the night.\u003cbr\u003eA silence hangs in the heart of it.\u003cbr\u003eFriends look at friends and tell themselves\u003cbr\u003ethat perhaps you'll come back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFahimeh dear, tell us, spare\u003cbr\u003ea word for your friends. Is\u003cbr\u003ethe sky sad where you are, does it weep?\u003cbr\u003eAnd the wind, does it ruffle your veil?\u003cbr\u003eBack here, the ward sweats for your news.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd a message gets through : \u003cbr\u003ewind-blown breathless dandelion\u003cbr\u003ecomes from the mountains to say that clouds \u003cbr\u003eare massing up there and they're big with child.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHead held high, you are standing and waiting for this,\u003cbr\u003efor the clouds to open, for you \u003cbr\u003eto be mother of change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRifles crack.\u003cbr\u003eThe moorland holds its breath\u003cbr\u003eat a star shooting across it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt would be good to sing and go with friends\u003cbr\u003eto face the firing squad, to dance,\u003cbr\u003eto float in the rain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the long sea-silence,\u003cbr\u003ea wave lifts, oars clip at the water.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young fisherman bringing his boat to land,\u003cbr\u003erice-growers trudging home,\u003cbr\u003ethey shape their lips to your name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYour name is beautiful for young girls born in July.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040751320,"sku":"9780954536749","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_2491335d-2269-4bf0-bfd6-2a69d98d27d8.jpeg?v=1752237541"},{"product_id":"modern-poetry-in-translation-series-3-no7-love-and-war","title":"Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.7) Love and War","description":"\u003cem\u003eLove and War\u003c\/em\u003e contains translations and original poems on this modern and ancient topic. This volume demonstrates the wealth and variety of interpretations of the theme.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca name=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eCover by Lucy Wilkinson.  Editorial by David and Helen Constantine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tAdonis, nine poems, translated by Peter Clark and Sarah Maguire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tJeff Nosbaum, ‘Pride of Ajax’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tYannis Ritsos, twenty-eight of the Monochords, translated by Paul Merchant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\t\u003ca href=\"#e0\"\u003eGuillaume Apollinaire, seven poems, translated by Stephen Romer\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tPushkin, The Captain’s Daughter, extracts translated by Robert Chandler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tVénus Khoury-Ghata, six poems from Interments, translated by Marilyn Hacker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tGilgamesh, an extract translated by Paul Batchelor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tFederico Garcia Lorca , ‘Song of the Civil Guard’, translated by Mark Leech\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\t\u003ca href=\"#e1\"\u003eOliver Reynolds, ‘Kolin’ and ‘Dusty Miller Breaks his Silence’(after Liliencron’s ‘Wer weiss wo’ and ‘Vergiss die Mühle nicht’)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tStephen Romer, four poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\t\u003ca href=\"#e2\"\u003eDu Fu, two poems, translated by Paul Harris\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tCharles Dobzynski, ‘My Life as a Wall’, translated by Marilyn Hacker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tLucretius, ‘Aulis’, translated by Stephanie Norgate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\t\u003ca href=\"#e3\"\u003eRobert Desnos, ten poems, translated by Timothy Adès\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tAnzhelina Polonskaya, four poems, translated by Andrew Wachtel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\t\u003ca href=\"#e4\"\u003eManuel Rivas, six poems, translated by Jonathan Dunne\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tGiuseppe Belli, four sonnets, translated by Mike Stocks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tElsa Morante, Farewell, an extract translated by Cristina Viti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tAndrea Zanzotto, four poems, translated by Jo Catling and others\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tElena Shvarts, nine poems, translated by Sasha Dugdale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews and Comments\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tMichael Hamburger on Assia Wevill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tRobin Fulton on Robin Robertson’s Tranströmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tSasha Dugdale on Emily Lygo’s Voltskaia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tCharlie Louth on Eavan Boland and the Bachmann-Henze correspondence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tBelinda Cooke on translations of Vittorio Sereni and Luciano Erba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tJosephine Balmer, Shorter Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003chr size=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"e0\" title=\"e0\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGuillaume Apollinaire, seven poems, translated by Stephen Romer\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e                         \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eXxxii (extracts)  My Lou I shall sleep tonight…\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy Lou I shall sleep tonight in the trenches\u003cbr\u003eFreshly dug and waiting near our guns\u003cbr\u003eSome twelve kilometers away are the holes\u003cbr\u003eWhere I shall go down in my coat of horizon-blue\u003cbr\u003eBetween the whizzbangs and the casseroles\u003cbr\u003eTo take my place among our soldier-troglodytes\u003cbr\u003eThe train stopped at Mourmelon le Petit\u003cbr\u003eAnd I stepped down as happy as I climbed up\u003cbr\u003eSoon we shall leave for the battery but for now\u003cbr\u003eI’m among the soldiery and shells are whistling\u003cbr\u003eIn the grey north sky and no one thinks of dying…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e……………………………\t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd thus we shall live on the frontline\u003cbr\u003eAnd I shall liken your arms to the necks of swans\u003cbr\u003eAnd sing your breasts belonging to a goddess\u003cbr\u003eAnd the lilac shall blossom… I shall sing your eyes\u003cbr\u003eWhere a choir of lissom cherubs is dancing\u003cbr\u003eThe lilac shall blossom in the serious spring!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003chr size=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"e1\" title=\"e1\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOliver Reynolds, ‘Kolin’ and ‘Dusty Miller Breaks his Silence’(after Liliencron’s ‘Wer weiss wo’ and ‘Vergiss die Mühle nicht’)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e               \u003cem\u003eKolin!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\t (18.vi.1757)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoldiers drown in their blood.\u003cbr\u003eWheeling smoke, hoof-churned mud\u003cbr\u003e\t and the sheen\u003cbr\u003eof a thousand spurs catches the sun.\u003cbr\u003eNo one’s springing to attention\u003cbr\u003e\t at Kolin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e All the generals and squaddies\u003cbr\u003e who necked bullets like toddies\u003cbr\u003e\t now stand easy.\u003cbr\u003e Death having meant no harm\u003cbr\u003e by his jogging each arm\u003cbr\u003e\t now stands easy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An oblong bump in the shirt\u003cbr\u003e of a corpse feeding on dirt\u003cbr\u003e\t looks like a book.\u003cbr\u003e An adjutant stooped as he grieved\u003cbr\u003e undid the pocket and retrieved\u003cbr\u003e           the Gospel of Luke.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReturned with Prussian palaver\u003cbr\u003eto the high-ranking father\u003cbr\u003e\t fixed in his chair\u003cbr\u003eit now bears a spidery inscription.\u003cbr\u003eKolin. My son lost in action.\u003cbr\u003e\tWho knows where.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd you who now read that line\u003cbr\u003eare one with its writer: both decline\u003cbr\u003e           to see what’s there.\u003cbr\u003eFor each of us will be posted in turn\u003cbr\u003elost in action, to freeze or burn\u003cbr\u003e           who knows where.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003chr size=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"e2\" title=\"e2\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDu Fu, two poems, translated by Paul Harris\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Scene in Spring\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe state is torn apart, only the mountains and rivers remain.\u003cbr\u003eWeeds and trees run rampant in the city this spring.\u003cbr\u003eDo the flowers sense the times, that they, like me, should weep?\u003cbr\u003eDo the birds feel the emptiness, they seem so fearful?\u003cbr\u003eFor three months on end the garrison beacons have glimmered at night.\u003cbr\u003eA letter from home would be worth a heap of gold to me,\u003cbr\u003eAn old man waiting, whose remaining white hairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003chr size=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"e3\" title=\"e3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Desnos, ten poems, translated by Timothy Adès\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSong of the Glass of Wine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the train goes don’t wave your hand,\u003cbr\u003eYour handkerchief, your umbrella,\u003cbr\u003eBut fill a glass with wine,\u003cbr\u003eAnd throw, towards the train whose grab-rails are singing,\u003cbr\u003eThe wine’s long flame,\u003cbr\u003eThe wine’s bloody flame that is like your tongue,\u003cbr\u003eAnd shares with it\u003cbr\u003eThe palate and the couch\u003cbr\u003eOf your lips and your mouth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003chr size=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"e4\" title=\"e4\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eManuel Rivas, six poems, translated by Jonathan Dunne\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBallad on the Western Beaches\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ship settles on the shore\u003cbr\u003eand land birds nest on its mast.\u003cbr\u003eWith the compass I trace routes on maps of tillage,\u003cbr\u003ehurt by the sky’s anger on the seed’s weak ribs,\u003cbr\u003efearful of the flower’s drift before inhumane winds.\u003cbr\u003eThe ship sleeps on the shore,\u003cbr\u003ethe keel’s blue imagination covered in brush and rushes,\u003cbr\u003eand the figurehead has a strolling soul.\u003cbr\u003eIn the binnacle is kept the book of moons and the rains’ needle,\u003cbr\u003ea bottle of old snow liqueur.\u003cbr\u003eA skylark sings on a rusty harpoon,\u003cbr\u003ea blackbird’s sigh lashes the cables\u003cbr\u003eand crows on the rudder glimpse lesser death lying alongside.\u003cbr\u003eAll set, admiral, for the great journey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040751556,"sku":"9780954536770","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_29d55b0a-dc86-4821-800d-d6dad869e2c0.jpeg?v=1752237541"},{"product_id":"modern-poetry-in-translation-series-3-no16-the-dialect-of-the-tribe","title":"Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.16) The Dialect of the Tribe","description":"The latest issue of \u003ci\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e takes as its theme the so-called ‘minority’ languages and cultures of our modern, globalised world. It explores a wide variety of viewpoints – translated poems, brief essays, anecdotes, photographs – and a wide range of issues: causes for lament, anger and revolt, but also for celebration, worldwide and perennial.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the heart of the matter lies the struggle for what John Clare called ‘self-identity’, a chief factor in which is language, one’s own peculiar tongue and the dialect of the tribe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn a calm day the gaps, the audible\u003cbr\u003eellipses, become la-la-la-la-la—\u003cbr\u003ethe way that most tongues sing along\u003cbr\u003ewhen we don’t have the words.\u003cbr\u003eI know this in my scant Estonian: that laul,\u003cbr\u003eis song. John, stay in those days,\u003cbr\u003enot the flurries of hard consonants, the ka-,\u003cbr\u003ethe ga-. that come with finger-stabbing\u003cbr\u003eand a hunted look. Lully, lulla... I wish you\u003cbr\u003ethe Coventry Carol, comfort on the edge\u003cbr\u003eof any language, its lully, lulla, lullay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Gross","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040751848,"sku":"9780955906480","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_9708b4e7-5e55-4f60-a8e0-6f7ae595c468.jpeg?v=1752237540"},{"product_id":"modern-poetry-in-translation-series-3-no11-frontiers","title":"Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.11) Frontiers","description":"Every issue of MPT crosses frontiers. Contributions come in from all over the world. Copies go out world-wide. Whatever their subjects, the translations themselves, out of many languages, cross frontiers of space and time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMPT 3\/11 concentrates on that essential act, and makes connections of many kinds - of going-betweens and crossings-over. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are frontiers between species, countries, creeds, classes and generations; between the sexes, between life and death, between then and now… And poetry has always gone out to these boundaries, to survey them and to cross them. Some passages are customary and welcome; others are more like smuggling and transgression... Some borders are open; others are walled, barb-wired and mined…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContains previously untranslated poems by Bertolt Brecht.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Contents \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditorial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOliver Reynolds, ‘Curtain’ (after Brecht) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAviva Dautch, ‘Ghazal’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKathryn Maris, variations on ‘Atonement’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Hart, ‘At the Edge’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarol Rumens, five poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilippe Jaccottet, five poems, translated by Alastair Thomson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHubert Moore, ‘Write-to-Life’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘After 209’, translated by Nasrin Parvaz and Hubert Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHubert Moore, three poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSasha Dugdale, ‘At the Edge’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Draycott,  from Pearl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOlivia McCannon, ten  poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Leech, ‘Shadow Economy’  (after ‘The Husband’s Message’, anon. 9th-10th century)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen Watts, ‘Nonno’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTimothy Adès, three translations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShinjiro Kurahara, ‘The Fox’, translated by William Elliott and Katsumasa Nishihara \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFitzgerald Kusz, ‘love’, translated by Shon Arieh-Lerer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeinz Ehemann, two poems, translated by Shon Arieh-Lerer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaymond Foster, ‘The Garden of God’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJennie Feldman, two poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAriel Zinder, ‘Bricks’, translated by Jennie Feldman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Rosenlöcher, four poems, translated by Ken Cockburn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReiner Kunze, ‘The Wall’, translated by Robin  Fulton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobin Fulton, four poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Hull, three poems and three translations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorgi Gospodinov, eight poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilhelm Bartsch, ‘Three leaves from the album of German Romanticism’, translated by  Tom Cheesman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJuan Gelman, ‘Nightingales Again’, translated by J.S.Tennant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJ.S.Tennant, ‘The Sleeper in the Valley’ (after Rimbaud)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrecht, ten poems, translated by David Constantine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Reviews \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBelinda Cooke, on translations of  Jean Cassou and Aldo Vianello\u003cbr\u003eCharlie Louth, on the Bachmann-Celan correspondence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJosephine Balmer, Further Reviews\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040752720,"sku":"9780955906411","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_b6f13df9-b38b-4b6c-8aca-2afcb177d312.jpeg?v=1752237540"},{"product_id":"modern-poetry-in-translation-series-3-no14-polyphony","title":"Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.14) Polyphony","description":"\u003ci\u003ePolyphony\u003c\/i\u003e deals with the different voices of poetic translation: the local, the foreign, the native, the acquired – and the strange hybrids that come into being when the language of home is crossed with that of abroad. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis issue of \u003ci\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e is an anthology in celebration of variety, without ever suppressing tones, dialects and utterances it might disturb us to hear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolyphony\u003c\/i\u003e includes a new translation of Pushkin’s \u003ci\u003eYevgeni Onegin\u003c\/i\u003e by D.M. Thomas, along with translations of Valéry Larbaud, Eugene Dubnov, Dorothea Grünzweig. There are also translations out of English: William Blake into Russian, Gerard Manley Hopkins into German, plus a feature on Daniel Huw’s \u003ci\u003eMemories of Ted Hughes 1952-1963\u003c\/i\u003e (Five Leaves, 2010), and an essay that delves into the Voices of Poetry, those very voices that make poetry such a vital, vibrant and unique experience for all concerned.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040753348,"sku":"9780955906459","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_cd3da655-66fd-49c5-af0a-f1c261f1d5a3.jpeg?v=1752237539"},{"product_id":"modern-poetry-in-translation-series-3-no13-transplants","title":"Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.13) Transplants","description":"The aim of \u003ci\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e, since Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort founded the magazine, has been to bring foreign poetry into wider circulation in English translation and in doing so, to enrich us all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslation can be thought of as the transplanting of a living thing out of its native time and place into somewhere foreign. There it may thrive or die. How can the subjects and forms of poetry be transplanted across time and space? Must they be modified? Or can the host culture be induced to accept them as they are?  In this issue of \u003ci\u003eMPT\u003c\/i\u003e we show many of the ways and means by which a literary transplant's chances of survival may be increased. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA most substantial and varied issue - more submissions were received for this issue than for any before - \u003ci\u003eTransplants\u003c\/i\u003e brings together poets in translation from China, Alaska, Albania, Vietnam, Brazil, India, Ancient Greece and Rome, Israel and Estonia. Nor are the forms any less varied: epic poetry, tanka, elegy, ballad, sonnet and ghazal, rhyming and unrhyming poems and prose poems all appear here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmongst many notable poets and translators included here are Marilyn Hacker with her translations of Tunisian Tahar Bekri; Miklos Radnoti translated from the Hungarian by Stephen Capus; Ruth Fainlight with her translations of Peruvian Blanca Varela; and the enchanting Estonian poet Kristina Ehin, whose \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e in English translation was awarded the Poetry Society's Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation, and whose new book, \u003ci\u003eThe Scent of Your Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming from Arc. Her translator is Ilmar Lehtpere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso: new versions of ballads by Itzik Manger, of the French Grail legend, of the English Sir Orfeo (by Maureen Duffy), and of early Brecht. Plus translations of Rimbaud by James Kirkup and of Alaskan Native American songs by John Smelcer. A very great variety of work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Reviews section is also rewarding: Roger Moulson, whose \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Night Rowers\u003c\/i\u003e won the Aldeburgh Prize, appraises the great Yang Lian's new collection \u003ci\u003eLee Valley Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloodaxe Books), and Saradha Soobrayen's illuminating reviews include one of the Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh's \u003ci\u003eThe Deleted Part\u003c\/i\u003e, translated by Stephen Watts and Marga Burgui-Artajo.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040753636,"sku":"9780955906442","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_0c05e95b-5039-49ea-b07e-87d3ab2351dc.jpeg?v=1752237538"},{"product_id":"the-north-42","title":"The North 42","description":"'How content I shall be in The North to which I sail!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNorth 42 is the inaugural issue from our new location in Bank Street, Sheffield.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e64 poems by 42 poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlison Brackenbury on Philip Larkin\u003cbr\u003eCatherine Fisher on George Mackay Brown\u003cbr\u003eArticles, featured poets, Reviews.","brand":"Smith\/Doorstop (The Poetry Business)","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040754780,"sku":"98050269 9885","price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_ddbbf189-214b-42b2-b7be-ad35a0c81426.jpeg?v=1752236640"},{"product_id":"the-north-41","title":"The North 41","description":"The main feature of The North issue 41 is a collection of articles concerning three major works to do with Ted Hughes: his translations, his letters and a recent biography. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlus, dozens of poems, a full reviews section and our usual features: 'Blind Criticism', 'Poets I Go back To', 'The Collection', etc.","brand":"Smith\/Doorstop (The Poetry Business)","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040762648,"sku":"19574-0269-9885","price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_38e31a6e-2eed-4119-8eba-f504da3ff288.jpeg?v=1752236639"},{"product_id":"the-north-39","title":"The North 39","description":"In this issue there is an extended ‘Poets I Go Back To’ features, with contributions by Liz Cashdan, Chris Considine, Alan Brownjohn and Anthony Wilson. And the critics in ‘Blind Criticism’ this time are the editors themselves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Woodward writes of the influence William Cowper has had on her. Paul Mills assesses Jeremy Hooker, and Gerard Benson takes to the boards in Lilac Time, a further instalment of his unmissable autobiography. Jane Routh describes the joy of a poetry reading in the Shetlands. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs usual there are loads of good new poems, and reviews of recent books including Penelope Shuttle, Gael Turnbull and S J Litherland's engagement with McSweeney.","brand":"Smith\/Doorstop (The Poetry Business)","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040762896,"sku":"18636-0269-9885","price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_6f14bf3f-da33-4fda-bf11-46f008a66cf6.jpeg?v=1752236638"},{"product_id":"the-north-43","title":"The North 43","description":"The biggest single issue of the magazine ever, North 43 features 70 poems by 37 poets, including Roy Fisher, Mimi Khalvati and Paidraig O'Morain and articles by John McAuliiffe and Bernard O'Donoghue on Seamus Heaney, Jonathan Davidson on learning Peter Didsbury by heart and Neil Curry on Edward Thomas  – as well as the ever-popular Blind Criticism and Poets I Go Back To features, together with two poems from each of the winners in the 2008\/9 Book \u0026amp; Pamphlet Competition.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Smith\/Doorstop (The Poetry Business)","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040763316,"sku":"19885-0269-9885","price":8.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_a7f06740-40d5-4fb7-bacd-e3b8c5f4fc81.jpeg?v=1752237115"},{"product_id":"the-north-46-25-years-in-the-north","title":"The North 46: 25 Years in the North","description":"\u003cb\u003eFeaturing 75 poems by 40 poets, celebrating The North's 25th anniversary.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFounded in 1985, The North magazine is now 25 years old. North 46 is the special '25 Years in the North' issue, featuring some of the best poems from previous issues alongside brand new work.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlus The Collection, Shelf Life, articles, Poets I Go Back To, Blind Criticism, and various reviews.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Smith\/Doorstop (The Poetry Business)","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040763824,"sku":"22187-0269-9885","price":8.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_0b774f74-97c7-4d6b-81e3-5ccabead2205.jpeg?v=1752237115"},{"product_id":"the-north-48","title":"The North: 48","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe North 48\u003c\/i\u003e showcases 143 poems by 82 poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Poets I Go Back To' — Simon Currie and Chris Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Blind Criticism' — Andrew Forster and Helen Mort discuss \u003ci\u003eTaedium Vitae\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Killick on Helena Nelson, Frank Ormsby, Anna Robinson, Mary MacRae\u003cbr\u003eAngelina Ayers on Mary Oliver, Peter Bennet, Anne Caldwell\u003cbr\u003eJane Routh on Justin Quinn, John Montague, John McAuliffe\u003cbr\u003eLiz Cashdan on Ivor Gurney, Tom Rawling\u003cbr\u003eStewart Conn on Derek Mahon\u003cbr\u003eNeil Roberts on Plath and Hughes\u003cbr\u003eNoel Williams on Clare Pollard, Kate Potts, Gill McEvoy\u003cbr\u003eNina Boyd on Some Girls Mothers\u003cbr\u003ePeter Carpenter on Hannah Lowe, Michael Mackmin, Steven Blyth\u003cbr\u003eDavid Cooke (1) on Tim Dooley, Oz Hardwick, Adam O’Riordan\u003cbr\u003eDavid Cooke (2) on Matthew Sweeney, Katrina Naomi, A.F. Harrold\u003cbr\u003eKay Syrad on Writing Your Self\u003cbr\u003eBelinda Cooke on Vasko Popa, Tadeusz Rózewicz\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Smith\/Doorstop (The Poetry Business)","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040764264,"sku":"22833-0269-9885","price":8.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_17f2b360-186e-4299-b966-06c31a4e6e9b.jpeg?v=1752237114"},{"product_id":"the-north-45","title":"The North 45","description":"Includes poetry from the likes of Simon Armitage, Elma Mitchell, George Szirtes, Lucille Clifton and Allison McVety.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeatures include:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Killick reviewing Patrick McGuinness, Sinead Morrissey and Paula Meehan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarole Bromley reviewing Pam Thompson, Sarah Corbett and Simon Armitage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarry Chambers and Cliff Yates in 'Poets I Go Back To'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRiver Wolton and Christy Ducker in 'Blind Criticism'.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Smith\/Doorstop (The Poetry Business)","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040766160,"sku":"22067-0269-9885","price":8.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_7ab1324d-1204-41d9-bf41-dec90d42e108.jpeg?v=1752237113"},{"product_id":"the-north-47-25-years-in-the-north","title":"The North 47: 25 Years in the North","description":"\"Stars in the north are seen not to set.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoems, articles, reviews and features - including 25 year poems and reflections on 25 years of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlus Poets I Go Back To, The Collection and Blind Criticism. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Smith\/Doorstop (The Poetry Business)","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040766284,"sku":"22305-0269-9885","price":8.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_71c19a2f-369e-4395-8bcb-aadb933a4eed.jpeg?v=1752237112"},{"product_id":"dogs-singing-a-tribute-anthology-limited-edition-gift-set","title":"Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (Limited Edition Gift Set)","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn exclusive gift set, featuring a wrapped edition of this anthology for dog-lovers, and a special treat for your faithful friend.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e brings together poems which highlight and examine and celebrate the canine world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors include Thomas Lynch, Alicia Ostriker, Maxine Kumin, Neil Astley, Andrea Cohen, Michael Heffernan, William Matthews, Richard Murphy, Kevin Simmonds, Sebastian Matthews, Stephen Dobyns, Theodore Deppe, Rita Ann Higgins, Matthew Sweeney, Pat Boran, Theo Dorgan, Paula Meehan, Pam Uschuk, Jim Rogers and Jordan Taylor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"First love, enduring love; the witness, the stoic, the companion, the protector, the better part of us, the abiding presence, the warrior, the survivor, the guardian angel.  Here is a big book of many poems, all inspired, devoted, motivated by a sacred bond that happens, the supreme privilege, that something far bigger than romance - a relationship with a dog. Dogs do sing; they also smile, socialise, engage and celebrate, mark a homecoming in proper style, even if it’s only the return from the local grocery store; they sigh, but most of all they understand, they grieve, they mourn, they empathise, they remember...\"\u003cbr\u003eEileen Battersby, Arts Writer \u0026amp; Literary Correspondent, \u003ci\u003eThe Irish?Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessie Lendennie\u003c\/b\u003e's prose poem Daughter was first published in 1988, followed in 1990 by \u003ci\u003eThe Salmon Guide to Poetry Publishing\u003c\/i\u003e and in 1992 by \u003ci\u003eThe Salmon Guide to Creative Writing in Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poetry has been anthologised in \u003ci\u003eIrish Poetry Now: Other Voices, Unveiling Treasures: The Attic Guide To The Published Works of Irish Women Literary Writers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe White Page\/An Bhileog Bhan: Twentieth-Century Irish Women Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She has conducted workshops and given readings all over Ireland and the United States for many years. She is the co-founder and Managing Director of Salmon Poetry. In 2008, she edited \u003ci\u003eSalmon: A Journey in Poetry, 1981-2007\u003c\/i\u003e, an anthology of Salmon Poetry. In 2009 she compiled and edited \u003ci\u003ePoetry: Reading it, Writing it, Publishing it\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Salmon Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040805524,"sku":"9781907056505","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_2862de2b-0076-474f-8b66-36e1de8d995a.jpeg?v=1752238215"},{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-24","title":"Banipal Magazine - Issue 24","description":"Issue 24 of \u003cem\u003eBanipal\u003c\/em\u003e includes excerpts from novels by Hanan al-Shaykh and Vénus Khoury-Ghata plus an extract from \u003cem\u003eThe World of Saddam Hussein\u003c\/em\u003e. There are short stories by Ahmed Bouzfour,  the late Samir Naqqash, and Ali al-Kasimi, and by Huzamah Habayeb, Haifa Bitar, Jamila Omairah, Aroussia Naluti and Salwa al-Neimi. \u003cem\u003eTHE TRAVELLING TALE\u003c\/em\u003e is an extract from Mohamed al-Makhzangi’s \u003cem\u003eMemories of a Meltdown\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE INTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR is with Stefan Weidner of the Goethe Institute’s Fikrun wa Fann magazine. Reviews include Mouloud Feraoun’s \u003cem\u003eThe Poor Man’s Son, The Yacoubian Building, A Wall Between Two Darknesses, Abdullah’s Secrets, The Land Border and Damascus: Taste of a City\u003c\/em\u003e.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIssue 24 announces the new prize for published literary translation from Arabic into English, which will be awarded for the firs time in 2006.  The prize will be £2,000 and will be awarded to the translator of a published translation in English of a full-length, imaginative and creative Arabic work of literary merit published in the 35 years prior to submission of the translation.  Entries can have been published anywhere in the world but must be available for purchase in the U.K.  The prize has been set up by \u003cem\u003eBanipal\u003c\/em\u003e Magazine and the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature, which was founded last year to support and celebrate the publication of Arab authors in English translation and the production of live literature events in the U.K. with Arab authors.  The Patron for the first year of the Banipal Prize is \u003cstrong\u003eMohammed Ahmad Al-Sowaidi\u003c\/strong\u003e, Secretary-General of the Cultural Foundation of Abu Dhabi.  A poet and well-know patron of the arts, he explained that \"the aim of sponsoring the prize in its first year is to participate in building bridges between Arab culture and the Western reader\".    For more information email: editor@banipal.co.uk \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCover artist: Mohamed Melehi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDITORIAL – Announcing the Banipal Translation Prize\u003cbr\u003eHanan al-Shaykh Excerpt from her novel\u003cbr\u003eHikayati Sharhun Yatool [My Story is Too Long to Tell]\u003cbr\u003eAhmed Bouzfour A short story The Ostrich Hunter\u003cbr\u003eSaadi Youssef A poem New Orleans\u003cbr\u003eMahdi Haydar Excerpt from The World of Saddam Hussein\u003cbr\u003eAroussia Naluti A short story “You taught me to love life, Father”\u003cbr\u003eLukman Derky A poem O Syria\u003cbr\u003eFadhil al-Azzawi A poem Unsuccessful Film\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamar Yazbek Excerpt from Salsal [Clay]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSalwa al-Neimi A short story The Siesta\u003cbr\u003eMajid Addam From the poem On the Street, I repeat “Good Night”\u003cbr\u003eVénus Khoury-Ghata Excerpt from A House at the Edge of Tears\u003cbr\u003eAli al-Kasimi A short story Circles of Sorrow\u003cbr\u003eMonzer Masri Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eHuzamah Habayeb A short story One Afternoon\u003cbr\u003eAkl Awit Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eHaifa Bitar A short story My Name is Alaa\u003cbr\u003eSamir Naqqash A short story Tantal\u003cbr\u003eJessica Bloom on Samir Naqqash Language, Dialects and Identity\u003cbr\u003eJamila Omairah A short story Wild Mint\u003cbr\u003eJoumana Haddad A poem The Return of Lilith\u003cbr\u003eShaker Laibi Six Poems\u003cbr\u003eRachida Madani A poem from Tales from a Severed Head\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA TRAVELLING TALE\u003cbr\u003eMohamed Makhzangi Excerpt from Memories of a Meltdown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR\u003cbr\u003eStefan Weidner, of Art \u0026amp; Thought\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003eJames Kirkup The Poor Man’s Son by Mouloud Feraoun\u003cbr\u003eEleanor Kilroy The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany\u003cbr\u003eHussain al-Mozany [A Wall Between Two Darknesses] by Balqis\u003cbr\u003eSharara \u0026amp; Rifat Chadirji; [Abdullah’s Secrets] by Habib Selmi\u003cbr\u003e[The Land Border] by Maysalun Hadi;\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Obank Damascus: Taste of a City\u003cbr\u003eby Marie Fadel as told to Rafik Schami\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEleanor Kilroy The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool: A Syrian Journey by Marius Kociejowski","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040826420,"sku":"1664714615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_4d1ee4e5-c164-4735-b728-390c1d86212b.jpeg?v=1752237899"},{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-29","title":"Banipal Magazine - Issue 29","description":"\u003ci\u003eBanipal 29\u003c\/i\u003e is packed with Summer reading, excerpts of novels, features and photo-reports. We pay tribute to the late Iraqi poet \u003cb\u003eNazik al-Malaika\u003c\/b\u003e who revolutionised modern Arabic poetry, and to Moroccan author \u003cb\u003eDriss Chraïbi\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe issue opens with an excerpt from \u003cb\u003eHassan Daoud’s\u003c\/b\u003e novel \u003ci\u003eYear of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, due out in October, his second in English translation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSalih Altoma\u003c\/b\u003e introduces a major feature on the pioneer Iraqi novelist \u003cb\u003eGhaib Tu‘ma Farman\u003c\/b\u003e, with excerpts from two of his novels, \u003ci\u003eFive Voices\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMr Ma'ruf's Woes\u003c\/i\u003e – the first time his work has been translated into English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Literary Influences column charts the journey of Palestinian writer, scholar and translator \u003cb\u003eIssa J Boullata\u003c\/b\u003e, while Moroccan poet and literator \u003cb\u003eMohammed Bennis\u003c\/b\u003e is featured in an in-depth interview and poetry in translation by \u003cb\u003eCamilo Gomez-Rivas\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNovelists include Saudi Arabian \u003cb\u003eYousef al-Mohaimeed\u003c\/b\u003e with an excerpt from his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Bottle\u003c\/i\u003e.  Lebanese-Palestinian \u003cb\u003eNabil Abu Hamad\u003c\/b\u003e with an excerpt from \u003ci\u003eThe Cripple\u003c\/i\u003e, Lebanese \u003cb\u003eAbbas Beydoun\u003c\/b\u003e with an excerpt from \u003ci\u003eBlood Test\u003c\/i\u003e, and Iraqi \u003cb\u003eDuna Ghali\u003c\/b\u003e with an excerpt from her novel \u003ci\u003eWhen the Scent Awakens\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoems in translation are from \u003cb\u003eSargon Boulus, Issa Makhlouf, D H Melhem, Amira Abul Husn, Salah al-Hamdani\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eSinan Antoon\u003c\/b\u003e.  Just one short story in this issue from \u003cb\u003eWafa Malih\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompleting the issue are Book Reviews, an extensive Books in Brief section, plus photo-reports including the RAWI Arab-American Writers Conference; Banipal’s New York reading for Lebanese poets; and Banipal’s visit to the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditorial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNazik al-Malaika (23 August 1923 – 20 June 2007) – A Tribute\u003cbr\u003eHassan Daoud – Excerpt from the novel Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine\u003cbr\u003eSargon Boulus – Eight Poems\u003cbr\u003eYousef al-Mohaimeed – Excerpt from a new novel The Bottle\u003cbr\u003eIssa Makhlouf – Selected Poems\u003cbr\u003eD H Melhem – Two Poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterary Influences\u003cbr\u003eIssa J Boullata – Books and I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeature on pioneer Iraqi novelist Ghaib Tu‘ma Farman\u003cbr\u003eSalih Altoma – Introduction\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from the novel Five Voices [Khamsat Aswat]\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from Mr Ma‘ruf’s Woes [Alaam al-Sayyid Ma‘ruf]\u003cbr\u003eWilliam M Hutchins Introduction to Mr Ma‘ruf’s Woes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNabil Abu Hamad – Excerpt from the novel The Cripple\u003cbr\u003eAbbas Beydoun – Excerpt from the novel Blood Test\u003cbr\u003eDuna Ghali – Excerpt from the novel When the Scent Awakens\u003cbr\u003eAmira Abul Husn – Fifteen Poems\u003cbr\u003eSalah al-Hamdani – Six Poems\u003cbr\u003eSinan Antoon – A Poem Necropolis\u003cbr\u003eWafa Malih – A short story NO!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeature on Mohammed Bennis\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction and interview by Camilo Gomez-Rivas\u003cbr\u003ePoems from the collections Gift of the Void and Over There You Stay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDriss Chraïbi (1926 – 1 April 2007) – A Tribute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook Reviews\u003cbr\u003eMona Zaki Thieves in Retirement by Hamdi Abu Golayyel\u003cbr\u003ePeter Clark My Name is Salma by Fadia Faqir\u003cbr\u003eJudith Kazantzis I‘jaam – An Iraqi Rhapsody by Sinan Antoon\u003cbr\u003eTarek el-Ariss The Illusion of Return by Samir el-Youssef\u003cbr\u003eZuzana Kratka Cairo Stories by Anne-Marie Drosso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBooks in Brief\u003cbr\u003eNew editions of Nawal el Saadawi’s The Hidden Face of Eve, God Dies by the Nile and Woman at Point Zero; Tales of Juha: Classic Arab Folk Humour; Distant Train by Ibrahim Abdel Megid; The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction, edited by Denys Johnson-Davies; Learning English by Rachid al-Daif translated by Paula and Adnan Haydar; The Journals of Sarab Affan by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra translated by Ghassan Nasr; Streetwise by Mohamed Choukri; Pyramid Texts by Gamal al-Ghitani translated by Humphrey Davies; The Last of the Angels by Fadhil al-Azzawi translated by William M Hutchins; Maryam’s Maze by Mansoura Ez-Eldin trans. Paul Starkey; Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Yousef el-Mohaimed, trans Anthony Calderbank; Women on a Journey between Baghdad and London by Haifa Zangana, translated by Judy Cumberbatch; Being Abbas el Abd by Ahmed Alaidy trans. Humphrey Davies; The Essential Gibran and A Little Book of Love both compiled by Professor Suheil Bushrui; Swimming Toward the Light by Angela Tehaan Leone; Does the Land Remember Me? by Aziz Shihab; Arab Culture and the Novel – Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction, by Muhammad Siddiq; La Part de L’étranger by Kadhim Jihad Hassan; Voices of Exiles : A Study of al-Tayyib Salih and his Work by Ami Elad-Bouskila; Letters from Cairo by Pauline Kaldas; Rituals of Memory in Contemporary Arab Women’s Writing by Brinda Mehta\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040826628,"sku":"1942014615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_005cacac-6d13-438d-88c0-0037576d6fa8.jpeg?v=1752237898"},{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-25","title":"Banipal Magazine - Issue 25","description":" \u003cstrong\u003eBanipal 25\u003c\/strong\u003e opens with a tribute to the late poet \u003cstrong\u003eMohammed al-Maghut\u003c\/strong\u003e whose death we learnt of as we were going to press. Little known in the West, al-Maghut was almost a household name in the Arab world, the influence of his innovative and lyrical poetic style (in just three collections) on generations of Arab poets since the late 1960s having been phenomenal. We were sad also to announce the death on 14 March 2006 of the pioneering Iraqi author \u003cstrong\u003eMahdi Issa al-Saqr\u003c\/strong\u003e, who had remained in Iraq throughout the Saddam era, continuing to write, but secluding his works from both the eyes of the censor and any readers. He died just three weeks after his novel \u003cem\u003eBeit ala Nahr Dijla [House on the Tigris]\u003c\/em\u003e, written in 1992, was published.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBanipal 25\u003c\/strong\u003e presents works by two prominent Libyan authors – the novelist \u003cstrong\u003eIbrahim al-Koni\u003c\/strong\u003e with an excerpt from the intriguing and challenging desert narrative \u003cem\u003eThe Seven Veils of Seth\u003c\/em\u003e, while poet and translator \u003cstrong\u003eKhaled Mattawa\u003c\/strong\u003e writes about the books and authors that have had an influential impact on his life in the regular column LITERARY INFUENCES, intriguing us with Russell Banks, Thomas Hardy and writing in an adopted language.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe major feature of the issue, 100 pages in length, is on the New Writing in Egypt, and features 19 young fiction writers and poets. Introducing the feature, Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih describes how the young generation of authors  \u003cem\u003e“capture the dispersed, the elusive and the contingent that constitute the every day”\u003c\/em\u003e. . . thereby \u003cem\u003e“debunking the heroic self”\u003c\/em\u003e of previous generations. The angry young cosmopolitan men and women in today’s Egypt are impatient for change and for recognition of the stamp of individuality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a freshness and matter-of-fact vitality in the air from all the authors, who include Hamdy Abowgliel with an excerpt from his novel \u003cem\u003eThieves in Retirement\u003c\/em\u003e, the poet Iman Mersal who lives in Canada, dentist-cum-novelist Alaa al-Aswany  (who authored the best-selling \u003cem\u003eThe Yacoubian Building\u003c\/em\u003e), Mansoura Ez-Eldin (one of four young Arab authors on the Banipal Live UK tour this August), prize-winning young author Haytham al-Wardany, and Ahmed Alaidy with his novel \u003cem\u003eBeing Abbas el Abd\u003c\/em\u003e, plus works by other young poets and writers, and a TRAVELLING TALE from writer and translator Waiel Ashry in the USA \u003cem\u003eGoing to Williamsburg\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlongside the feature is a tribute translation of the late Mohammed Mustagab’s true account and fictional story of meeting a hired killer, introduced by Banipal’s consulting editor Mona Zaki.  Jane Spender, Editor of PEN International, in the regular feature INTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR, talks about the magazine and how PEN is working for greater connections with the Arab world.   \t \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCover artist: Mai Refky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDITORIAL\u003cbr\u003eTribute to Mohammad al-Maghut (1934-2006)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIbrahim al-Koni \"The Visitor\"\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from the novel Al-Bahth An al-Makan al-Da’i\u003cbr\u003e[The Seven Veils of Seth]\u003cbr\u003eHartmut Fähndrich on al-Koni The Desert – our Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLITERARY INFLUENCES\u003cbr\u003eKhaled Mattawa The Relation of my Influences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFEATURE ON NEW WRITING IN EGYPT\u003cbr\u003eIntroduced by Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih Debunking the Heroic Self\u003cbr\u003eHamdy Abowgliel Excerpts from Thieves in Retirement\u003cbr\u003eIman Mersal Poems\u003cbr\u003eAlaa al-Aswany Two short stories\u003cbr\u003eMansoura Ez-Eldin Excerpt from Maryam’s Maze\u003cbr\u003eIbrahim Farghali A short story\u003cbr\u003eIndependent Egyptian publisher wins International Award\u003cbr\u003eFatima Naoot Two Poems\u003cbr\u003eMontasser El-Qaffash Excerpt from the novel To See Now\u003cbr\u003eZahra Yusri A Poem It’s Night\u003cbr\u003eNagat Ali Two Poems\u003cbr\u003eAhmed Alaidy Excerpt from Being Abbas el Abd\u003cbr\u003eEmad Abu Saleh Two poems\u003cbr\u003eHaytham al-Wardany Two short stories\u003cbr\u003eRana al-Tonsi Poems from A Rose for the Last Days\u003cbr\u003eSafaa Ennagar A short story Amoeba\u003cbr\u003eTamer Fathy Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eAshraf Abdelshafy Two short stories\u003cbr\u003eEmad Fouad A Poem\u003cbr\u003eYasser Abd el-Hafez Excerpt from On the Occasion of Life\u003cbr\u003eSawiris Fiction Prizes for Egyptian Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA TRAVELLING TALE\u003cbr\u003eWaiel Ashry Going to Williamsburg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMohammed Mustagab (d. 2005)\u003cbr\u003eA story The Hired Killer and a true account Ola the Hit Man\u003cbr\u003ewith introduction by Mona Zaki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR\u003cbr\u003eJane Spender, PEN International\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003ePeter Clark Memories in Translation by Denys Johnson-Davies\u003cbr\u003eSophie Richter-Devroe Die Reise des Granadiniers by Rabee Jaber\u003cbr\u003eTarek al-Ariss Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury\u003cbr\u003eStephen Watts Here and There: a Selection of Poems by Basim Furat\u003cbr\u003eMona Zaki I Loved You for your Voice by Sélim Nassib\u003cbr\u003eChawki Bazih Cabaret Su’ad by Mohammed Suwaid\u003cbr\u003eLulu Norman Le Diamantaire by Yasmine Khlat\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Obank Yasser Arafat Looked at Me and Smiled by Yussef Bazzi ","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040826948,"sku":"1788614615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_392ff446-20f1-403c-9f12-4a67be5949ac.jpeg?v=1752237898"},{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-33","title":"Banipal Magazine - Issue 33","description":"Banipal 33\u003cbr\u003eAutumn\/Winter 2008 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Let us go, you and I, on two paths: You, to a second life, promised to you by language in a reader who might survive the fall of a comet on earth. I, to a rendezvous I postponed more than once, with a death I promised a glass of red wine in a poem.”\u003c\/i\u003e — Mahmoud Darwish \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe issue opens with a major 70-page feature on the life and legacy of \u003cb\u003eMahmoud Darwish\u003c\/b\u003e. It includes articles, tributes, poems and many photographs of the great Palestinian and world poet, who passed away on Saturday 9 August following complications after major heart surgery in Houston, Texas, at the age of 67. “Darwish left behind,” writes Sinan Antoon, “an entire continent of poems whispering and singing inside Arabic and calling on us to reacquaint ourselves with its topography.” There are poems from Mahmoud Darwish’s last collection, translated by Catherine Cobham, to be published by Saqi Books next year as \u003ci\u003eIf I Were a Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, and a long poem, written earlier this year \u003ci\u003eAt the Station of a Train which Fell Off the Map\u003c\/i\u003e, translated by Sinan Antoon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFellow poets, and writers from around the world contribute their feelings on his passing, including Saadi Yousef, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Denys Johnson Davies, Wole Soyinka, Mark Strand, Abdo Wazen, Kadhim Jihad Hassan, Alberto Manguel, Amjad Nasser, Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih, Giuseppe Goffredo, Fadhil al-Azzawi, Judith Kazantzis, Thomas Høegh, Peter Clark, Clara Janès, Gaber Asfour, Bernard Noël, Mohammed Bennis, Naomi Shihab Nye, Stephen Watts, Qassim Haddad, Saif al-Rahbi, Issa J Boullata, Taha Adnan, and Mahmoud Shukair. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe feature includes rare photographs of Mahmoud Darwish taken in the last months of his life as he worked with Arts Alliance Productions on their film project \u003ci\u003eIdentity of the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e which screened open-air shows to packed audiences in Palestine in October.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 3 of our series on \u003cb\u003eContemporary Syrian Literature\u003c\/b\u003e opens with poems by Adonis, selected from \u003ci\u003eMihyar of Damascus: His Songs\u003c\/i\u003e, a new volume in translation from BOA Editions. There is also fiction from Fawwaz Haddad, who is long-listed for the 2008-09 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, from Khalil al-Neimi’s  intriguing novel, \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of Deserting\u003c\/i\u003e, with short stories from Ibrahim Samuel and Gladys Matar, and poems from Hussein Bin Hamza.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBanipal 33\u003c\/i\u003e includes many book reviews to whet readers’ appetites. They include \u003ci\u003eThe Butterfly’s Burden,\u003c\/i\u003e by Mahmoud Darwish, which won the 2008 Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for its translator Fady Joudah, as well as a review of his own award-winning poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Earth in the Attic\u003c\/i\u003e. A sheaf of novels in translation is reviewed, including \u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Revolutionary Bread-Making Machine\u003c\/i\u003e by Hassan Daoud, \u003ci\u003eWild Mulberries\u003c\/i\u003e by Iman Humaydan Younes, \u003ci\u003eNuit de l’étranger\u003c\/i\u003e by Habib Selmi, \u003ci\u003eHakawati\u003c\/i\u003e by Rabih Almeddine, \u003ci\u003eThe Collar and the Bracelet\u003c\/i\u003e by Yahya Taher Abdullah, \u003ci\u003eGold Dust\u003c\/i\u003e by Ibrahim al-Koni, and \u003ci\u003eThe Journals of Sarab Affan\u003c\/i\u003e by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Road from Damascus\u003c\/i\u003e by Robin Yassin-Kassab, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Iraqi Fiction, An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e by Shakir Mustafa, and Denys Johnson Davies reviews David Tresilian’s \u003ci\u003eA Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040827164,"sku":"1981014615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_6e26b916-b87c-4fd1-9ac1-f38fdca2278c.jpeg?v=1752237897"},{"product_id":"banipal-35-writing-in-dutch","title":"Banipal 35 – Writing in Dutch","description":"Banipal 35 presents ten talented authors who live in the Netherlands and Belgium and write in Dutch, and whose origins are in Morocco, Palestine and Iraq. All ten, explains guest editor Victor Schiferli in his introduction, are making important contributions, their “new and energetic voices” having enriched and broken “the mould of Dutch literature, taking up themes that had never before been explored”. \u003cbr\u003eFeatured authors include Ramsey Nasr, the new Poet Laureate of The Netherlands, and Moroccan poet Hassan Najmi.","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040827756,"sku":"1991014615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_2488e7ca-5924-4879-8883-05d51efafc8a.jpeg?v=1752237897"},{"product_id":"banipal-39-modern-tunisian-literature","title":"Banipal 39 - Modern Tunisian Literature","description":"Tunisia is known as a popular holiday destination but until now its rich literature has not had the recognition it deserves, except for the poems of Abu Al-Qasim Al-Shabi. Banipal 39 – Modern Tunisian Literature features over 150 pages of poetry and fiction by Tunisian authors, plus an introduction to the country’s literary pioneers with profiles, and book reviews.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBanipal 39 – Modern Tunisian Literature includes newly translated works of the foremost poet in the Arab world, Adonis. Also fiction from major authors Fadhil al-Azzawi and Mekkawi Said, and poems from upcoming British-Lebanese poet Omar Sabbagh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlus a tribute to the late Taher Wattar (1936-2010), and to critic Farouk Abdel-Kader (1938-2010).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlus Book Reviews: Albert Cossery – \u003ci\u003eThe Jokers\u003c\/i\u003e, Habib Selmi – \u003ci\u003eThe Scents of Marie-Claire\u003c\/i\u003e, Mahmoud Darwish – \u003ci\u003eJournal of an Ordinary Grief\u003c\/i\u003e, Inaam Kachachi – \u003ci\u003eThe American Granddaughter\u003c\/i\u003e, Hédi Kaddour – \u003ci\u003eTreason\u003c\/i\u003e, Mohamed Mansi Qandil – \u003ci\u003eMoon over Samarqand\u003c\/i\u003e and Hayan Charara’s Arab American poetry anthology, \u003ci\u003eInclined to Speak\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040828100,"sku":"2216314615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_b55af476-40f5-4d8e-a9ea-42ee9940e0d7.jpeg?v=1752237896"},{"product_id":"banipal-36-literature-in-yemen-today","title":"Banipal 36 – Literature in Yemen Today","description":"Banipal 36 – Literature in Yemen today is published just as this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair begins, and not long after the Berlin International Literature Festival, which had its international focus on the Arab world – an ideal time to introduce the rich and diverse fiction and poetry that is being written in Yemen. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis major feature (160 pages) presents a rich selection of novel excerpts, short stories and poetry from 17 of today’s Yemeni authors, most of whose work has never before been translated into English. Many are well-known in Yemen and the Arab world, and some are now regularly invited to European festivals; they include Nadia Alkowkobani, Ali al-Muqri and Wajdi al-Ahdal, Abdel Aziz al-Maqalih, Huda Ablan, Shawqi Shafiq and many more. There is no holding back on any subject matter in either fiction or poetry – the family, love, taboos, customs and superstitions, being a woman, coming to terms with the country’s history, life in Yemen today, the sky and the sea, myths and legends, dreams and nightmares, individual guilt, responsibility and atonement – a full and fascinating panorama of human life and society. Produced in collaboration with the Yemen Book Shop and its managing director Nashwan Ali Al-Maghafi, the 2008 Young Publishing Entrepreneur of the Year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Europe is no longer a place of exile or refuge for the Arab intellectual and writer. It is his publishing house, his reader, his pavement or sidewalk, his pulpit, his bookstore, and his city”, writes Lebanese writer and  journalist Youssef Bazzi in the Editorial, as he explains the new and “extraordinary relationship between Arab literature and the European reader”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBanipal 36 – Literature in Yemen Today also includes:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Excerpts from Lebanese author Alawiyya Sobh’s acclaimed new novel in which a middle-age woman takes a hard look at her love life and her present situation.\u003cbr\u003e• Short stories from renowned Egyptian author Yayha Taher Abdullah.\u003cbr\u003e• Photos and report from the Berlin international literature festival and its magnificent Focus Arab World in which more than 30 Arab authors participated.\u003cbr\u003e• Beirut39 – judges meet to decide on the final list of the 39 best Arab authors aged 39 and under, out of an initial list of over 400.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040828628,"sku":"19983-1461-5363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_9aa61d00-9df5-4e49-a7e2-d081f4a2e5e9.jpeg?v=1752237896"},{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-19","title":"Banipal Magazine - Issue 19","description":"\u003cb\u003e Banipal \u003c\/b\u003e takes its name from Ashurbanipal, last great King of Assyria and patron of the arts, whose outstanding achievement was to assemble in Nineveh, from all over his empire, the first systematically organised library in the ancient Middle East.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS:  Feature on Araqi authors; Tribute to Abdelrahman Munif (1933-2004); Tribute to Mohamed Choukri (1935 - 2003); a selection of profiles, poems and short stories; one novel excerpt and book reviews.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRIBUTE to Abdelrahman Munif (1933-2004)\u003cbr\u003efrom Banipal, Abdo Wazen, Abdu Khal,\u003cbr\u003eAbdallah al-Ghathami, Sa’ad al-Bazei, Gamal el-Ghitani\u003cbr\u003eand Ibrahim Abdel Meguid. Interview by Eskandar Habache\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRIBUTE to Mohamed Choukri (1935-2003)\u003cbr\u003ewith photographs from his life with writers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDITORIAL\u003cbr\u003eMohammed Bennis – Profile \u0026amp; Poems\u003cbr\u003eJames Kirkup – letter to Mohammed Bennis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGhalia Kabbani A short story Dreams of a Well-Bred Girl\u003cbr\u003eAbdo Wazen Selected Poems\u003cbr\u003eZahir al-Ghafri Selected Poems\u003cbr\u003eMohammed Sof A short story A Very Marginal Man\u003cbr\u003eJoumana Haddad Five Poems\u003cbr\u003eLatifa Baqa – short story Bad Soup!\u003cbr\u003eEbrahim al-Khaldi Two poems\u003cbr\u003eZiad Khaddash A short story The Absence of a Sister\u003cbr\u003eYoussef al-Mohemeed Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eAhmad Nuaimi A short story The Dictator’s Delicacy\u003cbr\u003eHassan Nasr Four Very Short Stories\u003cbr\u003eMarwan Ali A poem\u003cbr\u003eMohja Kahf Two poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFEATURE ON IRAQI AUTHORS – part 3\u003cbr\u003eFawzi Karim Selected Poems, introduced by Saadi Simawe\u003cbr\u003eKadhim Jihad Essay The Iraqi landscape in the early poems of Badr Shakir al-Sayyab\u003cbr\u003eLutfiyya al-Dulaimi A short story What the Storytellers Did not Tell\u003cbr\u003eGolala Nouri Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eNajim A Mustafa – Tales from Three Bags of Raisins\u003cbr\u003eKadhim al-Hallaq Three Short Stories\u003cbr\u003eAbid Jaafar A short story A Maze of a House\u003cbr\u003eMahmoud Sa’id A short story Bitter Morning\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Shimon Two Poems\u003cbr\u003eSalima Saleh Short story Those Boys\u003cbr\u003eSinan Antoon – Excerpt from novel Diacritics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003eRichard McKane Miracle Maker, selected poems of Fadhil al-Azzawi\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Obank Adama by Turki al-Hamad\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Thwaite Zodiac of Echoes by Khaled Mattawa\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Obank The World’s Embrace by Abdellatif Laâbi\u003cbr\u003eJames Kirkup Continent de douleurs by Fawzi Karim\u003cbr\u003eSusannah Tarbush Fatma by Raja Alem\u003cbr\u003eJames Howarth The Bleeding of the Stone by Ibrahim al-Koni\u003cbr\u003eand Saeed the Pessoptimist by Emile Habiby\u003cbr\u003eShakir Mustafa Where the Rivers Meet by Herbert Mason\u003cbr\u003eMona Zaki Qawarib Jabaliyyah by Wajdi al-Ahdal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLITERARY INFLUENCES\u003cbr\u003eHassouna Mosbahi James Joyce in Tunisia\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040829456,"sku":"1368914615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_21d1719f-be0c-47f4-9e54-b7c1026ae578.jpeg?v=1752237895"},{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-2","title":"Banipal Magazine - Issue 2","description":" Interviews with poet Adonis and poet-painter Etel Adnan. Works by Saadi Youssef and 8 other poets, 9 fiction writers, a tribute to the late Nizar Qabbani, reports on the Quartet and Garnet publishing houses, and on Iraqi exile writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditorial – Is there going to be a third issue?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaadi Youssef: Six poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFICTION\u003cbr\u003eIbrahim Aslan\u003cbr\u003eSamira ’Azzam\u003cbr\u003eSamir El-Youssef\u003cbr\u003eLatifa Baqa\u003cbr\u003eYousif Qa’id\u003cbr\u003eLuay Abdelilah\u003cbr\u003ePaula Haydar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEW with Adonis\u003cbr\u003eThere are many Easts in the East and many Wests in the West\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOETRY\u003cbr\u003eSaleem Barakat\u003cbr\u003eSalam Sarhan\u003cbr\u003eTaha Muhammad Ali\u003cbr\u003eMohammed Bennis\u003cbr\u003eSaif al-Rahbi\u003cbr\u003eAmina Saïd\u003cbr\u003eBasheer al-Baker\u003cbr\u003eTahar Bekri\u003cbr\u003eSaif al-Rahbi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrivate Syntheses and Multiple Identities\u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEW with poet, writer and artist Etel Adnan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003eSusannah Tarbush: Memory for Forgetfulness by Mahmoud Darwish\u003cbr\u003eAnne Chambers: Beirut Blues by Hanan al-Shaykh\u003cbr\u003ePeter Clark: Leaving Beirut by Mai Ghoussoub\u003cbr\u003eAs'ad Khairallah: Ounsi El-Hage: Eternité volante Poetry Anthology\u003cbr\u003eStefan Weidner: On the Path . . . with Tayib Saleh by Talha Jibril\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRIBUTE\u003cbr\u003eThe moon declares mourning . . .\u003cbr\u003eA tribute to Nizar Qabbani by Margaret Obank\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Shimon: Film script\u003cbr\u003eWhat’s Between the Poet and the Church?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslations without Translators\u003cbr\u003ePeter Clark on Arab writers who write in English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Iraqi Migrant Novel\u003cbr\u003eFatma Mohsen on developments in Iraqi novel-writing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEW . . . A Kiss of Death\u003cbr\u003eZelfa Hourani of Quartet Books talks about the perils of publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEW A Window on the Walled Garden\u003cbr\u003eSue Coll of Garnet Publishing talks about their Arab Women Writers Series","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040829876,"sku":"1794914615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_5f6974cc-2b67-4488-9a1d-edaa21e9d50a.jpeg?v=1752237895"},{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-30","title":"Banipal Magazine - Issue 30","description":"\u003ci\u003eBanipal 30 \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates ten years of publishing – translating and showcasing hundreds of Arab authors who have never had their works published in English before, presenting newly emerging writers as well as those well-established in the Arab world and beyond. ones. Banipal has brought together authors, translators, writers and reviewers in 30 issues which make up an incomparable archive of contemporary literature from the Arab world. And, we must not leave out the wide-ranging exhibition of contemporary artists whose works have filled our front covers. A special display of the artists and covers will be made available soon on the Banipal website.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBanipal 30 \u003c\/i\u003eopens with tributes from well-known authors to the Iraqi poet, poetry translator and founding editor of Banipal \u003cb\u003eSargon Boulus\u003c\/b\u003e, who died unexpectedly on 22 October. His death “has left a gaping wound in the heart of modern Arabic poetry”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKeeping a finger on the pulse of the Arab literary scene, the authors in the issue are from Jordan, Libya, Sudan, Morocco, Egypt, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates and Tunisia. They include the well-known poets \u003cb\u003eAmjad Nasser \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eKhaled Mattawa\u003c\/b\u003e, both of whom are founding contributing editors of Banipal, both settled outside their mother countries, the former in the UK, the latter in the USA and both writing intriguing poems of vision and changing heritages. \u003cb\u003eElias Khoury \u003c\/b\u003eneeds no introduction, and we are pleased to present an excerpt from his novel \u003ci\u003eYalo\u003c\/i\u003e, forthcoming in English translation in the USA and the UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCover artist is \u003cb\u003eJaber Alwan \u003c\/b\u003efrom Iraq \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditorial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRIBUTE\u003cbr\u003eSargon Boulus (1944–22 October 2007)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRemembering Sargon Boulus –\u003cbr\u003eBouquets on the grave of Sargon Boulus\u003cbr\u003ePhotos and tributes from fellow authors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmjad Nasser – Eight Poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNaguib Mahfouz Excerpts from Morning and Evening Talk, the latest translation of a novel by the late Nobel laureate for literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWidad Benmoussa – Selected Poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaouf Mousaad Basta Excerpt from his novel The Ostrich Egg [Baydhat al-Na’amah]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKhaled Mattawa – Seven Poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAzza Rashad – Two short stories My Mother's Eyes and The Nght . . . When all is Quiet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuwaffak al-Sawad – Two Poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamer Abu Hawwash – Three Poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMohammed Hassan Alwan – Two short stories Blonde Grass and Statistics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRania Mamoun\u003cbr\u003e– A short story The Thirteen Months of Sunrise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdel Khozam – Selected Poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLITERARY INFLUENCES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLutfiya Dulaimi – A Thousand and One Nights and The Fruits of the Earth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRIBUTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNoel Abdulahad (1939–2007)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElias Khoury – Excerpt from the novel Yalo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbdelkader Benali – Poems Ibn Khaldoun in Hollandia Felix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHabib Selmi – Souad’s Tale – an excerpt from a novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGolala Nouri – Poem Are you sure you want to delete ...?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElias Farkouh – Three short stories Creation, A Man I Don't Know and A Very Long Short Story\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIbrahim Abdel Meguid – How clocks the watches stopped or Why we heard only the verses of hell in the large tent – An excerpt from a novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEW WITH A PUBLISHER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Literature is the doorway to a country's soul\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichel Moushabeck of Interlink Publishing,\u003cbr\u003ecelebrating twenty years of publishing 1987–2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSusannah Tarbush The Lodging House by Khairy Shalaby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMona Zaki Learning English by Rashid al-Daif\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTarek el-Ariss Being Abbas el Abd by Ahmad Alaidy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja Kahf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZuzana Kratka Maryam’s Maze by Mansoura Ez-Eldin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolker Kaminski Das Geständnis des Fleischhauers by Hussain al-Mozany\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll these book reviews can be read online. Click here for full iist of online book reviews, originally reviewed in Banipal issues\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040830100,"sku":"1950414615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_4f3e3388-d041-44a4-889a-1dbc660db732.jpeg?v=1752237894"},{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-7","title":"Banipal Magazine - Issue 7","description":"44-page feature on contemporary Algerian literature, feature on poet Saadi Youssef, works by 7 other poets and works by 5 f iction-writers. Tribute to novelist Hani al-Raheb.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFEATURE ON SAADI YOUSSEF\u003cbr\u003ePoems, with appreciations from Khaled Mattawa, Stefan Weidner, James Kirkup, Abbas Beydhoun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMahmoud Shukair: Testimony, and Ten Short Stories\u003cbr\u003eAmjad Nasser: Poems\u003cbr\u003eFawziyya Abu Khalid: Poems\u003cbr\u003eAbdo Wazen: Poems\u003cbr\u003eNasser al-Dhaheri: Short story The Sounds of Moans\u003cbr\u003eZakaria Mohammed: Poems, with appreciation from Amjad Nasser\u003cbr\u003eHilmy Salem: poems\u003cbr\u003eMohamed el-Bisatie: Excerpt from his novel Clamour of the Lake\u003cbr\u003eNathalie Handal: Poem\u003cbr\u003eAbdah Khal: Short story: The story of Rashid al-Haydari\u003cbr\u003eSalman Masalha: Poems\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Shimon: Royal Silver excerpt from novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFEATURE ON ALGERIAN LITERATURE\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Waciny Laradj: Breaking the silence on Algerian literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMohammed Dib: Short story The Companion\u003cbr\u003eMohammed Dib: Poems, with appreciations by James Kirkup\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAzzedine Mihoubi: poem\u003cbr\u003eRachid Boudjedra: Excerpts from two novels Turmoil and The Stubborn Snail\u003cbr\u003eTaher Wattar: Excerpt from the novel The Earthquake\u003cbr\u003eintroduced by William Granara\u003cbr\u003eMalek Haddad: Poems, with appreciation by Tahar Bekri\u003cbr\u003eAbdelhamid Ben Haddouga: excerpt from novel, with appreciation by Brahim Sadi\u003cbr\u003eKateb Yacine: Poems\u003cbr\u003eMohamed Magani: Excerpts from the novel The Butcher’s Asethetic\u003cbr\u003eSalah Khabacha: Poem\u003cbr\u003eAbdel Aziz Gharmoul: Short story The Smell of the Opposition\u003cbr\u003eOthman Loucif: Poems\u003cbr\u003eBashir Mufti: Wardah’s Confessions excerpt from novel\u003cbr\u003eKatarzyna Pieprzak on Assia Djebar\u003cbr\u003eMehdi Charef: continuing excerpt from Alexina’s House\u003cbr\u003eKader Boubekri: poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEWS OF BOOKS BY ALGERIAN AUTHORS\u003cbr\u003ePeter Clark Memory in the Flesh by Ahlam Mosteghanemi\u003cbr\u003eJames Kirkup La Serment des barbares by Boualem Sansal\u003cbr\u003eLorraine Pounds Sherazade by Leïla Sebbar\u003cbr\u003eand A tous qui partent by Fatma Z. Zamoum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHazim Saghieh: America and the culture war\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRIBUTE\u003cbr\u003eBassem K. Frangieh pays tribute to Syrian novelist Hani al-Raheb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003eMona Zaki Houses behind the Trees by Mohamed el-Bisatie\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Obank Seven by Ghazi Algosaibi ","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040830452,"sku":"1795314615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_e43d6155-151d-43c2-bbc4-75e653f4f221.jpeg?v=1752237894"},{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-8","title":"Banipal Magazine - Issue 8","description":"22-page feature on Moroccan novelist, poet and essayist Tahar Ben Jelloun. Feature on works by Ten Iraqi Poets.  PLUS works by 6 other poets and 10 fiction-writers including appreciations. Article by Mahmoud Darwish on Translating Poetry. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDITORIAL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeature on TAHAR BEN JELLOUN\u003cbr\u003epoet, novelist and essayist\u003cbr\u003ewith drawings by Azzawi\u003cbr\u003eJ M G Le Clézio: Tahar the wise\u003cbr\u003eStefan Weidner: Homage to the Unknown Dead\u003cbr\u003eExcerpts from the poems The Raising of the Ashes and Ephemeral Childhood\u003cbr\u003eMaati Kabbal: The Polyphonies of Ben Jelloun\u003cbr\u003eJames Kirkup: Ben Jelloun’s Italian journeys\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from the novel Labyrinthe des sentiments\u003cbr\u003ewith illustrations of Ernest Pignon-Ernest\u003cbr\u003eTahar Ben Jelloun talks to Pierrre Maury\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from poem Le Discours du Chameau\u003cbr\u003ewith an appreciation by translator Margaret Furniss\u003cbr\u003eMai Ghoussoub reviews Harrouda\u003cbr\u003eMona Zaki reviews Corruption\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Obank reviews Ben Jelloun’s trilogy The Sand Child,\u003cbr\u003eThe Sacred Night and The Wrong Night\u003cbr\u003eand French Hospitality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMahmoud Darwish: On translating poetry The Place of the Universal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaidar Haidar: Excerpt from the novel The Desolate Time\u003cbr\u003eBassam K. Frangieh: Essay Haidar Haidar – novelist of social change\u003cbr\u003eEtel Adnan: Three poems\u003cbr\u003eAbdallah Zreka: Excerpts from “Black candle drops”\u003cbr\u003eAhmed Barakat: Three poems\u003cbr\u003eSabri Moussa: Three short stories\u003cbr\u003eRafik Schami: Three short stories\u003cbr\u003eUlla Kasten: Rafik Schami – Damascene storyteller\u003cbr\u003eYahya al-Qaissi: Short story Shattered desires\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTEN IRAQI POETS\u003cbr\u003eSelected poems of:\u003cbr\u003eSalah Niazi\u003cbr\u003eSargon Boulus\u003cbr\u003eSadiq al-Sayegh\u003cbr\u003eA K EL Janabi\u003cbr\u003eHashim Shafiq\u003cbr\u003eAmal AL-Jabouri\u003cbr\u003eMuniam Alfaker\u003cbr\u003eAdnan Mohsen\u003cbr\u003eFadhil Sultani\u003cbr\u003eDalia Riadh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIssa J. Boullata: Short story Bar-room confessions\u003cbr\u003eSaleh al-Azzaz: Short story Chirping\u003cbr\u003eMay Tilmissany: Excerpt from the novel Dunyazad\u003cbr\u003eRoger Allen: Essay Possibilities of meaning and delicious ambiguities\u003cbr\u003eMuhsin al-Ramly: Short story Boredom\u003cbr\u003eFaraj Bou al-Isha: Six poems\u003cbr\u003eSabah Zwein: Selected poems\u003cbr\u003eLeila Marouane: Excerpt from the novel The Abductor\u003cbr\u003eHoda Ablan: Twelve poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003eSamir el-Youssef: Out of Place by Edward Said\u003cbr\u003eSusannah Tarbush: The Honey by Zeina B. Ghandour\u003cbr\u003eSusannah Tarbush: Tony Hanania’s islands of desire\u003cbr\u003ePeter Clark: Eros Island by Tony Hanania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040830992,"sku":"1795414615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_60ad4c71-510a-4a46-9603-fdc002b39637.jpeg?v=1752237893"},{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-no-31","title":"Banipal Magazine – Issue No 31","description":"Arab literature in translation, that’s Banipal – but not only presenting more and more interesting authors in the magazine, also looking at new opportunities for development that will encourage a new generation of literary translators, that will give publishers the chance to publish, and readers to read, as well as researching new funding possibilities, and looking at how to make sure the magazine, and then the books, can reach readers, wherever they are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Spring Banipal highlights some of the numerous events already this year which focus on literature from the Arab world, such as the new International Prize for Arabic Fiction, the launch of Arabia Books, and Banipal itself winning the UK Incwriters 2008 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature (Magazines) – an immensely proud moment being “recognised, selected and celebrated by our peers in literature in the UK”. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis issue pays tribute to publisher Suhail Idriss, founder of Al-Adab publishing house, and to pioneer Iraqi author Fuad al-Takarli. A new departure for Banipal is a dialogue from \u003ci\u003eThe Visitor\u003c\/i\u003e, an enthralling, and fast-moving playscript by Lebanese poet, translator and author Paul Chaoul. There’s a moving testimony by the late Egyptian author Osama Dinassouri from his posthumously published memoir, and searing short story from \u003ci\u003eDafur\u003c\/i\u003e by Sudanese author Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBanipal 31 presents the first of a three-part series on Syrian literature. There's fiction from: Zakaria Tamer, with selected stories from a new collection \u003ci\u003eBreaking Knees\u003c\/i\u003e, Rafik Schami, with an excerpt from his latest work \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Side of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, Khaled Khalifa, short-listed for the “Arab Booker” for his novel \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of Hatred\u003c\/i\u003e, also a chapter from a new novel by Khalil Suwailih, and three short stories from Nihad Sirees, Dima Wannous and Manhal Sarraj. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poets in the issue are the late Mohammad al-Maghut, from four poets who will visit the UK in July – Lukman Derky, Monzer Masri, Hala Mohammad and Rasha Omran. In addition we feature poets Lina Tibi, Nazih Abu Afach, Abed Ismael, Rima Buaini, Saleh Diab and Jackleen Salam. This first part concludes with a tale of walking through Rome by surgeon\/author Khalil al-Neimi. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook reviews include Hisham Sharabi’s memoir \u003ci\u003eEmbers and Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e, Diane Abu-Jaber’s \u003ci\u003eOrigin, Dissident Syria\u003c\/i\u003e by miriam cooke, Yousef al-Mohaimeed’s \u003ci\u003eWolves of the Crescent Moon, Outcast\u003c\/i\u003e by Shimon Ballas, \u003ci\u003eInside the Night\u003c\/i\u003e by Ibrahim Nasrallah and \u003ci\u003eNaguib Mahfouz\u003c\/i\u003e by Rasheed el-Enany.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe cover artist is Mehdi Qotbi from Morocco.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDITORIAL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Chaoul – Excerpt from the play The Visitor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbdelaziz Baraka Sakin – A short story The Music of Bones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOsama Dinassouri – Excerpt from My Decrepit Dog, My Darling Dog\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRIBUTE\u003cbr\u003eSuhail Idriss 1925 – 19 February 2008\u003cbr\u003eFounder Dar Al-Adab publishing house\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFEATURE ON SYRIAN LITERATURE\u003cbr\u003ePART 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKhaled Khalifa – Excerpt from the novel In Praise of Hatred\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMohammad al-Maghut – Five Poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDima Wannous – A short story Sahar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLukman Derky – Sixteen Poems\u003cbr\u003ePerforming and in Conversation at Ledbury and London Review Bookshop see events for all details\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLina Tibi – Eight Poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKhalil Suwailih – Excerpt from the novel Zuhur, Sarah and Nariman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaleh Diab – Six Poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZakaria Tamer – Stories from his new collection Breaking Knees\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJackleen Salam – Two Poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNihad Sirees – A short story Thinking of Naima\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNazih Abu Afach – Seven Poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRima Buaini – Two Poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbed Ismael – Selected poems from Voices\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eManhal Sarraj – A short story For the First Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRasha Omran – Two Poems\u003cbr\u003ePerforming and in Conversation at Ledbury and London Review Bookshop see events for all details\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMonzer Masri – Three Poems\u003cbr\u003ePerforming and in Conversation at Ledbury and London Review Bookshop see events for all details\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHala Mohammad – Poems from As if I’m knocking on my door\u003cbr\u003ePerforming and in Conversation at Ledbury and London Review Bookshop see events for all details\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRafik Schami – Excerpt from the novel The Dark Side of Love\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA TRAVELLING TALE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKhalil al-Neimi – Rome in the Rain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRIBUTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFuad al-Takarli, 1927 – 11 February 2008\u003cbr\u003ePioneering Iraqi author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBassam K Frangieh Embers and Ashes by Hisham Sharabi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTarek el-Ariss Origin by Diane Abu-Jaber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Clark Dissident Syria by miriam cooke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZuzana Kratka Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Youssef al-Mohaimeed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJudith Kazantzis Outcast by Shimon Ballas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSusannah Tarbush Inside the Night by Ibrahim Nasrallah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Obank Naguib Mahfouz by Rasheed el-Enany\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll these book reviews can be read online. Click here for full iist of online book reviews, originally reviewed in Banipal issues\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040831320,"sku":"1965114615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_aa58421e-1f34-4f78-92f2-10294462aab4.jpeg?v=1752237892"},{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-32","title":"Banipal Magazine – Issue 32","description":"\u003cb\u003eBanipal 32, Summer 2008\u003c\/b\u003e, introduces a number of new voices for the first time published in English. There is the young Egyptian author, \u003cb\u003eMohamed Salah al-Azab\u003c\/b\u003e, who is 27 with already several literary awards to his name. There is \u003cb\u003eAbdulaziz Al Farsi\u003c\/b\u003e, from Oman, with an excerpt from his debut novel, [Weeping Earth . . . Laughing Saturn. Lebanese author \u003cb\u003eAhmad Ali El-Zein\u003c\/b\u003e, has authored four novels and his latest, \u003ci\u003eThe Edge of Oblivion\u003c\/i\u003e, which we excerpt here, is the first volume of a trilogy about fictional hero Abdul Jalil Ghazal. Also from Lebanon is \u003cb\u003eMay Menassa\u003c\/b\u003e, with an excerpt from her novel \u003ci\u003eWalking in the Dust\u003c\/i\u003e, which was short-listed this year for the inaugural Arabic “Booker” prize. From Syrian author and poet \u003cb\u003eMaher Sharafeddine\u003c\/b\u003e comes an excerpt from his debut novel, and from renowned fiction writer and dramatist \u003cb\u003eAbdel Khaliq al-Rikabi\u003c\/b\u003e, one of the few major Iraqi authors to have stayed in the country, an excerpt from his acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eSeventh Day of Creation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBanipal also presents poetry from Syria by three poets writing in three different languages: the late \u003cb\u003eMamdouh Adwan\u003c\/b\u003e in Arabic, \u003cb\u003eMohja Kahf\u003c\/b\u003e who writes in English, and \u003cb\u003eAdel Karasholi\u003c\/b\u003e who writes in German – all of them highly accomplished and published poets. Plus two new poetic voices, the young Egyptian poets \u003cb\u003eAhmad Yamani\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eMohamed Metwalli\u003c\/b\u003e. Interview with an Editor is with literary translator from Arabic to German \u003cb\u003eHartmut Fähndrich\u003c\/b\u003e, this year celebrating his 50th translation of Arabic fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Banipal 32, sadly, we pay tribute to \u003cb\u003eDoris Kilias\u003c\/b\u003e, “the voice of Naguib Mahfouz in German”, who died in June 2008, and to the “Voltaire of the Nile” (as the French press called him) Egyptian author \u003cb\u003eAlbert Cossery\u003c\/b\u003e, a friend of Banipal, who died in Paris, also in June. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this issue we present \u003ci\u003ePart 2 of the Feature on Syrian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and look forward to continuing it in the Autumn\/Winter issue with a number of equally important authors. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Travelling Tale\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating walk through Jerusalem observing its shuttered and barred windows, as told by Palestinian author and resident of the city \u003cb\u003eMahmoud Shukair\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook Reviews include the prize-winning novel by Baha Taher \u003ci\u003e[Sunset Oasis]\u003c\/i\u003e, Naomi Shihab-Nye’s \u003ci\u003eTender Spot\u003c\/i\u003e collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eBanquet of Lies\u003c\/i\u003e by Amin Zaoui and the selection in \u003ci\u003eBooks in Brief\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe cover artist is Zena Assi from Lebanon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDITORIAL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRIBUTE to Albert Cossery 1913–2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMohamed Salah al-Azab – Excerpt from Repeated Stopping\u003cbr\u003eAhmad Ali El-Zein – Excerpt from The Edge of Oblivion\u003cbr\u003eAbdulaziz Al Farsi – Excerpt from Weeping Earth . . . Laughing Saturn\u003cbr\u003eMay Menassa – Excerpt from Walking in the Dust\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRIBUTE to Doris Kilias 1942–2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAhmad Yamani – Two Poems\u003cbr\u003eMohamed Metwalli – Three Poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFEATURE ON CONTEMPORARY SYRIAN LITERATURE – Part 2\u003cbr\u003eMamdouh Adwan – Four Poems\u003cbr\u003eHaidar Haidar – A short story Pollen\u003cbr\u003eMaher Sharafeddine – The Hand An excerpt from a novel\u003cbr\u003eMohja Kahf – A Poem for Hamsa Newmark’s Sixieth Birthday\u003cbr\u003eAdel Karasholi – Twelve Poems\u003cbr\u003eHaifa Bitar – A short story Love\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbdel Khaliq al-Rikabi – Excerpt from Seventh Day of Creation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA TRAVELLING TALE\u003cbr\u003eMahmoud Shukair – Windows of Jerusalem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEW\u003cbr\u003eHartmut Fähndrich – Arab Literature is now on the map\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003eKhaled Hroub Wahat al-Ghuroub [Sunset Oasis] by Baha Taher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJudith Kazantzis Tender Spot by Naomi Shibab Nye\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLulu Norman Banquet of Lies by Amin Zaoui\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll these book reviews can be read online. Click here for full list of online book reviews, originally reviewed in Banipal issues\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOKS IN BRIEF\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040831564,"sku":"1971414615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/19714_2_04082008_095449.jpeg?v=1752237892"},{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-3","title":"Banipal Magazine - Issue 3","description":"Interviews with novelist Abdelrahman Munif, film-maker Costa Gavras and poet Amjad Nasser, plus works by poet-novelist Anton Shammas and 11 other poets, 10 fiction writers, plus reviews.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditorial: Thank You for your Support\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbbas Beydhoun: Selected poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEW with Abdelrahman Munif\u003cbr\u003ecompiled by Samuel Shimon\u003cbr\u003ewith comment, review and analysis from Peter Theroux, Peter Clark and Faisal Darraj\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnton Shammas: Three poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFICTION\u003cbr\u003eNajem Wali\u003cbr\u003eLaila al-Othman\u003cbr\u003eKareem Abed\u003cbr\u003eYounis al-Akhzami\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Shimon\u003cbr\u003eMohammed al-Belushi\u003cbr\u003eHadia Sa’id\u003cbr\u003eMohammed el-Mezdioui\u003cbr\u003eAhmed al-Fagih\u003cbr\u003eMohamed Berrada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEW with Costa Gavras\u003cbr\u003eby Samuel Shimon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOETRY\u003cbr\u003eQassim Haddad\u003cbr\u003eDunya Mikhail\u003cbr\u003eAhmad Fu’ad Nigm\u003cbr\u003eMohammad Ali Farhat\u003cbr\u003eNouri al-Jarrah\u003cbr\u003eAmel Moussa\u003cbr\u003eAdel Khuzam\u003cbr\u003eSharif al-Rubai\u003cbr\u003eKhalid al-Maaly\u003cbr\u003eAnwar al-Ghassani\u003cbr\u003eKhaled Mattawa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Arrival of a Stranger\u003cbr\u003eJordanian poet Amjad Nasser talks to Banipal\u003cbr\u003ewith selected poems translated by Sargon Boulus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003eStefan Weidner: Writing the Self\u003cbr\u003eSusannah Tarbush: In the House of Silence Arab Women’s Novels Series\u003cbr\u003eSamir el-Youssef: Studies in Canonical and Popular Arabic Literature\u003cbr\u003eSalah Niazi: Live Theatre \u0026amp; Dramatic Literature in the Medieval Arab World","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040831784,"sku":"1795014615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_378910d5-f29a-44f5-b949-a65e67889ded.jpeg?v=1752237891"},{"product_id":"banipal-37-iraqi-authors","title":"Banipal 37 – Iraqi Authors","description":"Banipal’s first issue of 2010 celebrates authors from Iraq with over half its 224 pages devoted to fiction and poetry by 21 writers from different generations, some spread across the world, but many writing from within the country. We celebrate, in particular, a new generation of Iraqi fiction writers and poets who are free to write the story of Iraq we’ve been waiting to hear, however hard, and are indebted to all the translators and copy-editors who made the issue possible. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Writers who are completely new to Western readers are Nazum al-Obeidi and Nassif Falak (who has his own hair-raising personal story of flight, capture on a number of borders and imprisonment in Abu Ghraib during the Saddam regime), the atmospheric writer Enas al-Badran, Ahmad Saadawi and Shakir Nouri. PLUS many more . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePLUS\u003cbr\u003e• Glimpses into the powerful fiction of Yemeni author Ali Mohammed Zayd, of Egyptian novelists Mohamed al-Bisatie and Ezzat el-Kamhawi \u003cbr\u003e• An excerpt from Algerian poet Habib Tengour’s historical epic poem Ce Tatar-là, in translation by Marilyn Hacker \u003cbr\u003e• A short story from Flemish author Rachida Lamrabet, translated from the Dutch. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePLUS book reviews, and literary festivals photo-reports \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040832592,"sku":"2093114615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_7c4d8b23-f236-489b-9f33-b84f89b1c374.jpeg?v=1752237886"},{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-4","title":"Banipal Magazine -  Issue 4","description":"Issue 4 includes interviews and appreciations on poet Mahmoud Darwish, novelist Albert Cossery,  novelist Yusef Habshi al-Ashqar and novelist-playwright Ahmed al-Fagih.  Plus works by 11 poets,  six fiction-writers and  articles on the Arabic Novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDITORIAL A door here, a window there - opening up the house of Arab literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFEATURE ON MAHMOUD DARWISH\u003cbr\u003ePoems, interview and appreciations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoem Without Exile, Who Am I?\u003cbr\u003eplus excerpts from The Damascene Ring of the Dove trans. Anton Shammas\u003cbr\u003ePoems: We Used to Lack a Present, Four Personal Addresses, Love Song from the Cross and Solo Performance trans. Ibrahim Muhawi\u003cbr\u003eDrought trans. Khaled Mattawa\u003cbr\u003eA Cloud from Sodom trans. Sargon Boulus\u003cbr\u003eInterview by Hassouna Mosbahi\u003cbr\u003eAppreciations by Anton Shammas, Bassam K Frangieh, David Kennedy, Stefan Weidner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFEATURE ON ALBERT COSSERY\u003cbr\u003eAlbert Cossery – Appreciation, excerpt and interview\u003cbr\u003eJames Kirkup: introduction and excerpt from the novel\u003cbr\u003eThe latest news from al-Qahira\u003cbr\u003eShaker Nouri interviews the Egyptian novelist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFuad Rifqa: Poems\u003cbr\u003etranslated by Adnan and Paula Haydar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYusef Habshi al-Ashqar The Shadow and the Echo\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from his trilogy with appreciation by translator Adnan Haydar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOETRY\u003cbr\u003eWadih Sa'adeh\u003cbr\u003eMaram al-Massri\u003cbr\u003eSeema Atalla\u003cbr\u003eAhmad Kattouah\u003cbr\u003eMohammad al-Harthi\u003cbr\u003eNezar Andary\u003cbr\u003eHatif Janabi\u003cbr\u003eBassem al-Meraiby\u003cbr\u003eMohammad al-Hussaini\u003cbr\u003eAbdulaziz Jassim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEW A writer at night\u003cbr\u003eLibyan author Ahmed Fagih talks with Margaret Obank\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFICTION\u003cbr\u003eRachid Boudjedra\u003cbr\u003eHassan Daoud\u003cbr\u003eHussain al-Mozany\u003cbr\u003eLaila al-Ouhaydib\u003cbr\u003eHabib Selmi\u003cbr\u003eIman H. Younes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Arabic Novel\u003cbr\u003eFaisal Darraj on the problems besetting Arab novelists\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Poet and the Magazine\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Shimon on Saif al-Rahbi poet and editor of Nizwa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003eSusannah Tarbush: Taha Husain's Education by Abdelrashid Mahmoudi\u003cbr\u003eStefan Weidner: The Arabic Literary Heritage by Roger Allen\u003cbr\u003eBassam K Frangieh: ’Aa’ed ila al-Quds [Returning to Jerusalem] by Issa J. Boullata\u003cbr\u003eSamir el-Youssef: Rites of Assent two novellas by Abd al-Hakim Qasim\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Obank: Bab el-Oued by Merzak Allouache\u003cbr\u003ePeter Clark: The Arab writer in English by Geoffrey Nash\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Obank: Bint Arab by Evelyn Shakir\u003cbr\u003eLebanon: Four Journeys to the Past by Roseanne Saad Khalaf\u003cbr\u003eSusannah Tarbush: Sun on a Cloudy Day by Hanna Mina ","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040833248,"sku":"1795114615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_df23c2e5-002c-4e29-bb0b-a86a9e6c86fc.jpeg?v=1752237885"},{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-28","title":"Banipal Magazine - Issue 28","description":"Every issue now we seem to be saying farewell to a well-known Arab literary figure. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis time, we open sadly with a tribute to \u003cb\u003eMai Ghoussoub\u003c\/b\u003e, the London-based Lebanese co-founder of Al Saqi Books, writer and artist, who died so suddenly in February. We dedicate our major feature on Lebanese poetry to her memory. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLebanese poets occupy an extremely important place in the Arab poetry scene, both contemporaneously and historically; this feature presents selected works by 32 poets celebrating, at the same time, the 50 years’ anniversary of the first issue of the revolutionary \u003ci\u003eShi’r\u003c\/i\u003e poetry magazine. Among the poets are those well-known outside the Arab world such as Ounsi el-Hage, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Abbas Beydoun, Abdo Wazen, Paul Chaoul and Salah Stétié, and many others who hopefully soon will be.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFiction writers from Egypt, Iraq and Kuwait begin the issue. In Gamal el-Ghitani’s modernist masterpiece \u003ci\u003ePyramid Texts\u003c\/i\u003e, being published by AUC Press, the enigmatic power of the pyramids is skilfully interwoven with threads of Islamic history and Sufi mysticism in a quest for wisdom and enlightenment. Miral al-Tahawy’s latest novel \u003ci\u003eGazelle Tracks\u003c\/i\u003e is an enthralling first-person narration that unravels unexpected stories from an old family photograph; Fadhil al-Azzawi’s novel set in an Iraqi jail, \u003ci\u003eCell Block 5\u003c\/i\u003e, and reprinted in 2000, was made into a film in Syria. The narrator in Taleb Alrefai’s novel \u003ci\u003eSamar’s Words\u003c\/i\u003e is a young Kuwaiti woman, trapped and frustrated by society’s traditional ways. We look forward to seeing the latter three fully published in English. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe TRAVELLING TALE is a thoughtful walk around the pyramids by Lebanese poet, writer and cultural advisor Issa Makhlouf. INTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR is with Hesham Behari of Alhambra Förlag, who publishes Arab authors in Swedish translation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis year has begun on a high note for translating Arab literature, as the editorial reveals, with a first delegation of UK publishers at the annual Cairo Book Fair, the collaboration of the Frankfurt Book Fair team with the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, the announcement of a new International Prize for Arabic Fiction in association with the renowned Booker Prize Foundation, and our sister organization, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature, announcing that after a successful first year in 2006, the Banipal Prize will be sponsored for the next five years by Omar Saif Ghobash in memory of his late father, and will now be known as The Saif Ghobash – Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation (see www.banipaltrust.org.uk)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur cover artist is the well-known Egyptian painter (and translator from Italian) Adel El Siwi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditorial\u003cbr\u003eMai Ghoussoub – a Tribute\u003cbr\u003eMiral al-Tahawy Excerpt from the novel Gazelle Tracks\u003cbr\u003eFadhil al-Azzawi Excerpt from the novel Cell Block 5\u003cbr\u003eGamal el-Ghitani Excerpt from the novel Pyramid Texts\u003cbr\u003eTaleb Alrefai Excerpt from the novel Samar’s Words\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFEATURE ON LEBANESE POETRY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCelebrating Shi’r magazine – Issue No 1,1957\u003cbr\u003eBassam Hajjar\u003cbr\u003eYehia Jaber\u003cbr\u003eJawdat Fakhreddine\u003cbr\u003eJoumana Haddad\u003cbr\u003eSalah Stétié\u003cbr\u003eYoussef Bazzi\u003cbr\u003eSabah Zwein\u003cbr\u003eCharles Chahwan\u003cbr\u003eSuzanne Alwayan\u003cbr\u003eFidel Sbeity\u003cbr\u003eMohammed A S al-Din\u003cbr\u003eZeinab Assaf\u003cbr\u003eGhassan Jawad\u003cbr\u003eBilal Khubbayz\u003cbr\u003eEskander Habache\u003cbr\u003eCharbel Dagher\u003cbr\u003eAkl Awit\u003cbr\u003eInaya Jaber\u003cbr\u003eHenry Zoghaib\u003cbr\u003eWadih Sa’adeh\u003cbr\u003eEtel Adnan\u003cbr\u003eJad El Hage\u003cbr\u003eHassan al-Zein\u003cbr\u003eNazem el-Sayed\u003cbr\u003eVénus Khoury-Ghata\u003cbr\u003eAbdo Wazen\u003cbr\u003eAmal Nawwar\u003cbr\u003eHassan Abdallah\u003cbr\u003eChawki Bazih\u003cbr\u003ePaul Chaoul\u003cbr\u003eAbbas Beydoun\u003cbr\u003eOunsi El Hage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA TRAVELLING TALE\u003cbr\u003eIssa Makhlouf – Journey around the Pyramids\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEW WITH A PUBLISHER\u003cbr\u003eHesham Bahari, publisher of Alhambra Förlag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003eZuzana Kratka reviews De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage\u003cbr\u003eJudith Kazantzis reviews Saraya, The Ogre’s Daughter by Emile Habiby\u003cbr\u003eSusannah Tarbush reviews Remember me to Lebanon by Evelyn Shakir\u003cbr\u003eand Dreams of Water by Nada Awar Jarrar\u003cbr\u003eSaadi Youssef reviews Stories from Ancient Iraq retold by Fran Hazelton\u003cbr\u003ePeter Clark reviews Modern Arabic Literature by Paul Starkey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOKS IN BRIEF\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040835252,"sku":"1923714615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_df1da92a-399f-4263-aded-4876abd421e8.jpeg?v=1752237883"},{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-6","title":"Banipal magazine – Issue 6","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFadhil al-Azzawi: Poems from Bedouins under an Alien Sky _with appreciation by Khaled Mattawa \u003cbr\u003eZakariyya Tamir: Seven short stories \u003cbr\u003eTony Hanania: Excerpt from forthcoming novel Eros Island \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFEATURE ON GHALIB HALASA\u003cbr\u003eFaisal Darraj: The novelist of alienation in daily life \u003cbr\u003eGhalib Halasa: excerpts from the novel Al-Khamasin \u003cbr\u003eGhalib Halasa: short story The Birthday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWaleed Khazendar: Poems, with appreciation by Subhi Hadidi \u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEW with Edwar al-Kharrat \u003cbr\u003eMona Zaki: Saleem Barakat's mezmerising world of language and metaphor \u003cbr\u003eSaleem Barakat: Excerpts from the novel The Crossing of the Flamingo \u003cbr\u003eVénus Khoury-Ghata: Poems \u003cbr\u003eNathalie Handal: Poem excerpt \u003cbr\u003eJuan Goytisolo: The truth of fiction \u003cbr\u003eHassouna Mosbahi: short story The Tortoise \u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEW with Rashid al-Daif \u003cbr\u003eRashid al-Daif: excerpt from the novel Learning English \u003cbr\u003eNabil Naum Gorgy: Short story The Competition \u003cbr\u003eMohja Kahf: Poems \u003cbr\u003eMani’a Said al-’Otaiba: Excerpt from the novel Karima \u003cbr\u003eNujum al-Ghanim: Poems \u003cbr\u003eMehdi Charef: Excerpt from the novel Alexina’s House \u003cbr\u003eIssa J Boullata: Short story Search for Saleema \u003cbr\u003eFawziyya al-Sindi: Poem \u003cbr\u003eTRIBUTE: Bassem K. Frangieh: The Last Exile of Abdul Wahab al-Bayati \u003cbr\u003eKareem Abed: Poems \u003cbr\u003eOunsi el-Hage: Last stanzas of The Messenger with her Hair Long to the Springs \u003cbr\u003eSaadia Mufarreh: Poems \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK REVIEWS \u003cbr\u003eMargaret Obank: Ports of Call by Amin Maalouf \u003cbr\u003eJames Kirkup: Arab authors published in French \u003cbr\u003eSamir el-Youssef: The Hill of Gypsies and other stories by Said al-Kafrawi \u003cbr\u003eSusannah Tarbush: The Tent by Miral al-Tahawy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEVENTS \u003cbr\u003eAlgiers: Arab Study Days of Literature and Poetry \u003cbr\u003eCopenhagen: Arab-Danish Cultural Festival","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040836048,"sku":"2007314615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_16c2f07f-e69f-4675-98c8-eb84d1b193c2.jpeg?v=1752237883"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/uncategorized\/laila-lalami.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}