Dreams of elsewhere

Volume 97, No 3, Autumn 2007

Editor: Fiona Sampson

Listen to Eva Gerlach read at the launch of Dreams of Elsewhere. Her reading follows Fiona Sampson's reading of John Irons' translation...

 

The Lyric Principle: Part 2: The Sound of Sense.

Following on from Part 1 of Don Paterson's indespensible essay ('The Sense of Sound'), which appeared in the summer issue of Poetry Review, the second instalment continues and concludes his disquisition.

Contemporary Dutch Poets: a Poetry Review Supplement

With the autumn Poetry Review, we have issued a special supplement of contemporary Dutch poetry – free with each copy (subject to availability).

Poems

Alice Oswald, Two Moon Poems: In A Tidal Valley, Mud
Jamie McKendrick, The Experiment, The Critic Gets To Grips With Piero
Martin Harrison, Plum Trees
Peter McDonald, The Interruption, The Reeds
Mehdi Akhayan-Saales, trans. Ali Alizadeh and John Kinsella, The Return Of The Ravens
Attar, trans. Ali Alizadeh and John Kinsella, from The Conference Of The Birds
David Harsent, after Yannis Ritsos, Penelope, The Acrobat
Inna Lisnianskaya, trans. Daniel Weissbort, from Ekho: In The Monastery Gardens, With My Optic Nerve... , Israel. February. Warmth... , March One. Red Sea. Eilat... , Shloma
Euripides, trans. Robin Robertson, from Medea (lines 230–266)
Sophocles, trans. Ruth Fainlight and Robert Littman , from Antigone (lines 1192–1243)
Janet Sutherland, Illumination
Adam Elgar, Ottavia
E.A.Markham, Poem
Jane Draycott, Alpha
Kate Bingham, August
David Morley, A Rainbow
Andrew Fentham, Fowl Language
Christopher Wallace-Crabbe, Turn Of The Screw, Beasts
Fred D’Aguiar, Subaltern, The Return
Alan Brownjohn, Ludbrooke: His Old Approach, His Linguistic Endeavours, His Invention, His Classic Modesty
Thomas McCarthy, At Templemaurice House
Vernon Scannell, Still Life
A Long-Distance Friendship: Sarah Hannah, The Missing Ingredient, Blessed Thistle; Eva Salzman, Seas
Kit Fan, The Hairdresser By The Styx
Catullus, trans. Simon Smith, 85
Ros Barber, Driving Without Lights
John Whitworth, Love Sonnet
Catullus, trans. Simon Smith, 94
Peter Bland, SS Film Of A Village Clearance
Catullus, trans. Simon Smith, 93
Carrie Etter, Biopsy
Nigel McLoughlin, Chorus
Charles Tomlinson, Handel Blind, To A Surgeon

Centrefold

Don Paterson, The Lyric Principle: The Sound of Sense
Elaine Feinstein meets Inna Lisnianskaya
Charles Simic interviewed by Donovan McAbee

Reviews

Jon Cook on C.K.Williams’s Collected
Mark Ford on the uncollected Elizabeth Bishop
Jamie McKendrick on recent editions of Celan, Trakl and Goethe
Danielle Chapman on the Collected Poems of C.D. Wright & Paul Auster Stephen Romer on Kennelly, Hughes and Komunyakaa as translators
Michael Hulse on David Harsent
Ruth Fainlight on Galway Kinnell and W.S.Merwin
David Morley on two highly distinctive Irish poets
Charlotte Newman on Gillian Alnutt, Tracy Ryan and Kapka Kassabova
Daniel Weissbort on contemporary translations

Endpapers

Editorial
David Wheatley, Postcard from Hull
Andrew Mitchell, Postcard from Lewis
Sibyl Ruth, Translating Theresienstadt
Letters to the Editor
Contributors