The Poetry Society Celebrating our centenary

Europe comes to Cheltenham

(Volume 81, No 3, 1991)

Editor

Peter Forbes

Europe comes to Cheltenham

Germany: Hans Magnus Enzensberger; poems by Rilke, Michael Hamburger, Michael Hulse, Paul Celan, Steffen Mensching, Peter Hamm; Lawrence Sail on Gunter Eich and Michael Hamburger's autobiography; two poems by Gunter Kunert

The Daily Telegraph Cheltenham Festival of Literature: intorduced by Lawrence Sail, with full listings; poem by Rimbaud; George Szirtes on East European poetry

Hungary: Edwin Morgan on Gyorgy Petri; poems by Attila Jozsef, Gyozo Ferencz, and Zsuzsa Rakovsky

Poland: Poem by Cyprian Kamil Norwid; Tadeusz Rozewicz on 1989 and poetry; poem by Anna Kamiernska; Sonald Davie on Adam Czerniawski's The Mature Laurel and Aleksander Wat; poems by Tadeusz Rozewicz, Ewa Lipska, Jon Stallworthy, Adam Czerniawski, and BogdanCzaykowski; Robert Crawford on Satnislaw Baranczak's essays; Michele Roberts on Wislawa Szymborska

Romania: Michele Roberts on daniela Crasnaru; poems by Daniela Crasnaru, Grete Tartler, Marin Sorescu, Denisa Comanescu, and Adrian Popescu; Dennis O'Driscoll on young Bulgarian poets; poem by Mirela Ivanova; Mirela Ivanova: The Flickering Flames of the Candle (essay)

Child of Europe: James Sutherland-Smith reviews Michael March's anthology of East European poetry

Czechozlovakia: poems by Miroslav Holub, Zdnek Vanicek, Ivan Kolenic

The Poetry of Survival: Daniel Weissbort intorduces his anthology of Post-War European poetry

Yugoslavia: poems by Ivan V. Lalic, Gojko Djogo, and Tomaz Salamun

Greece: David Constantine on Odysseus Elytis

Italy: Poem by Primo Levi; Dana Gioia on Jeremy Reed's Montale translations; poem by Jeremy Reed; Jamie McKendrick on New Italian Poets; poems by Valerio Magrelli and Jackie Kay

Scandinavia: Poem by Harry Clifton; Michael Hofmann on Tua Forsstrom; poems by Eira Stenberg and Agneta Pleijel; Adam Thorpe on Norwegian and Swedish poetry

Estonia: Poem by Jaan Kaplinski

Russia: Stephen Spender on Anna Akhmatova; poem by Aleksandr Kushner; John Bayley on The Poetry of Perestroika; poem by Osip Mandelstam; William Scammell on Mandelstam; poem by Andrei Voznesensky; Elaine Feinstien on Bella Akhmadulina; James Wood on Yevgeny Yevtushenko; poems by Yunna Mortis and Tatiana Bek

USA: Poem by Raymond Carver

Britain and Ireland: poem by David Constantine; W.N. Herbert on Edwin Morgan at 70; poem by Edwin Morgan; poems by Matthew Gross; poems by Sean O'Brien and Stephen Romer; Anne Stevenson on Peter Scupham; poem by Carol Rumens

Holland: Poem by Rutger Kopland

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