Contents

Akhmatova on the South Bank

Ruth Borthwick: Anna of all the Russias: Translating Akhmatova
Elaine Feinstein: An Evening for Akhmatova
Colette Bryce: Six poems
Sasha Dugdale: Five poems
Jo Shapcott: Three poems
George Szirtes (with Veronika Krasnova): Six poems
Marilyn Hacker: ‘For Akhmatova’
John Greening: ‘Coming Soon. Remastered from the Old Norse’
Neil Philip: ‘Twenty-one glosses on poems from The Greek Anthology’
Paul Howard: Versions of four sonnets by Giuseppe Belli
Terence Dooley: A version of Raymond Queneau’s ‘La Pendule’
Kathleen Jamie: Hölderlin into Scots. Two poems
Josephine Balmer: The Word for Sorrow: a work begins its progress
Ingeborg Bachmann
Karen Leeder: Introduction
Mike Lyons: ‘War Diary’
Patrick Drysdale and Mike Lyons: Five Bachmann poems

Sean O’Brien: A version of Canto V of Dante’s Inferno
Cristina Viti: Eros Alesi’s Fragments
Sarah Lawson and Malgorzata Koraszweska: Six poems by Ann Kühn- Cichocka
Marilyn Hacker: Guy Goffette’s ‘Construction Site of the Elegy’
Belinda Cooke and Richard McCane: Six poems by Boris Poplavsky
Cecilia Rossi: Poems from Alejandra Pizarnik’s Works and Nights
Terence Cave: A memorial note on Edith McMorran and a translation of Aragon’s ‘C’
Paul Batchelor: An essay on Barry MacSweeney’s Apollinaire

Reviews

Antony Wood on Angela Livingstone’s Poems from Chevengur
Josephine Balmer on Cliff Ashcroft’s Dreaming of Still Water and PeterBoyle’s Eugenio Montejo
Paschalis Nikolaou on Philip Ramp’s Karouzos
Francis Jones on Jan Twardowski (translated by Sarah Lawson and Malgorzata Koraszweska) and A Fine Line: New Poetry from Central and Eastern Europe
Josephine Balmer:Books Received.