Modern Poetry in Translation No. 1, Series Three © Modern Poetry in Translation 2004 and contributors ISBN 0-9545367-1-1 ISSN 0969-3572 Typeset by WM Pank Printed and bound in Great Britain by Short Run Press, Exeter

Editors: David and Helen Constantine

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8 Mahmoud Darwish / tr. Sarah Maguire 34 Boris Ryzhy / tr. Sasha Dugdale 42 Giorgio Caproni / tr. Robert Hahn 51 Liam ÓÓ Muirthile / tr. Bernard O’Donoghue 57 Eunice Odio / tr. Keith Ekiss 61 Luciano Erba / tr. Peter Robinson 69 Philippe Jaccottet / tr. Helen and David Constantine 76 Jorge Ynglesias / tr. Peter Bush 81 Gerhard Falkner/ tr. Richard Dove

Essay 86 The Traveller – A Tribute to Michael Hamburger by Charlie Louth

Plus 92 Notes on the Contributors 94 Back Issues