Modern Poetry in Translation - Getting it Across
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68 Jenny Joseph, an essay and five poems, after drawings by Jaume Prohens
77 Martti Hynynen, five poems, translated by Mike Horwood
81 Lucy Hamilton, extracts from a sonnet version of Lalla Maghnia
90 Tsvetanka Elenkova, six poems, translated by Jonathan Dunne
93 Tuğ ğrul Tanyol, four poems, translated by Ruth Christie
101 Jane Draycott, a translation of the first two sections of Pearl
107 Naomi Jaffa, The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
109 Taha Muhammad Ali, three poems, translated by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi and Gabriel Levin
114 Michael Hamburger, four poems
119 Robert Walser, twelve poems, translated by Michael Hamburger
127 Two Memorial Notes on Michael Hamburger by Anthony Rudolf by Iain Galbraith
Reviews
134 Charlie Louth on Don Paterson, Martyn Crucefix and Rilke
143 Belinda Cooke on The Translator as Writer (edited Susan Bassnett and Peter Bush)
147 Jo Balmer, Shorter Reviews
152 Notes on Contributors
158 Back Issues
170 Subscriptions
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Editorial
Michael Hamburger’s association with MPT goes back more thanforty years, almost to our very beginning. He is named among theadvisoryeditorsin thesecondissue, Summer 1966; andto the third, Spring1967, he contributedtranslationsofIngeborg Bachmann’s‘LeavingEngland’ and Helmut Heissenbüüttel’s ‘the future of socialism’. InMayof this year he sent us four of his own poems and ten days later the translations of Robert Walser, which we publish here. My letter thankinghimfor Walser arrivedat MarshAcres the morninghe died. We were awayinFrance whenhe sent it; hadwe beenhome, I shouldhave writtensooner, emulating him, thepromptestof correspondents. Howcanwethankthe dead? Whenwe askedMichael for work or gratefully accepted whatheoffered, weneverfittedhimintoanyof ourparticular themes;but,asithappens,heispeculiarlyin placein thisissue called ‘Getting it Across’. Poet, translator, literary critic, tirelessly goingtoand frobetween thelanguages, couldanyone havedonemore?I wroteabout himalmost twentyyears ago: an introduction to a Bibliography of the Publications of Michael Hamburger. Ihaveahorrorof bibilographies, buthis wascuriouslymoving. Thereyousawit: proof of theloveand labour, thegoingbetween, thegettingit across. I calledmy