Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.8) Getting it Across Fiona SampsonGetting it Across 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. Cover by Lucy Wilkinson. Editorial by David and Helen Constantine. Contents: Bernardo Atxaga, two poems, translated by Margaret Jull Costa Gabriela Mistral, The Foreigner, translated by Arthur McHugh Niyati Keni, Poetry in
Rimbaud Versions of Three Poems
Salah Niazi: Live Theatre & Dramatic Literature in the Medieval Arab World
INTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR is with Brian Whitaker
Abbas Beydhoun: Selected poems
Settings range from the American Deep South to Lithuania and inner city Nottingham to medieval battlefields
Lukman Derky A poem O Syria
Reading these poems is like a holiday of the best kind: eye-opening
Mohammed Hassan Alwan – Two short stories Blonde Grass and Statistics
Neil Roberts on Plath and Hughes
Peter Clark: The Arab writer in English by Geoffrey Nash
Hakawati by Rabih Almeddine
Basema Younes – 'Silence'
