Contents 5 Editorial David and Helen Constantine

Akhmatova on the South Bank 9 Ruth Borthwick Anna of all the Russias: Translating Akhmatova 00 Elaine Feinstein An Evening for Akhmatova 15 Colette Bryce Six poems 17 Sasha Dugdale Five poems 23 Jo Shapcott Five poems 27 George Szirtes (with Veronika Krasnova) Six poems

31 Marilyn Hacker ‘For Anna Akhmatova’

35 John Greening ‘Coming Soon. Remastered from the Old Norse’

41 Neil Philip ‘21 glosses on poems from The Greek Anthology’

48 Paul Howard Versions of four sonnets by Giuseppe Belli

53 Terence Dooley A version of Raymond Queneau’s ‘La Pendule’

57 Kathleen Jamie Hölderlin into Scots. Two poems

60 Josephine Balmer The Word for Sorrow: a work begins its progress

Ingeborg Bachmann 69 Karen Leeder Introduction

72 Mike Lyons ‘War Diary’ 81 Patrick Drysdale and Mike Lyons Five Bachmann poems

86 Sean O’Brien A version of Canto V of Dante’s Inferno 91 Cristina Viti Eros Alesi’s Fragments 98 Sarah Lawson and Malgorzata Koraszweska Six poems by Anna

Kühn-Cichocka

103 Marilyn Hacker Guy Goffette’s ‘Construction Site of the Elegy’

111 Belinda Cooke and Richard McKane Six poems by Boris

Poplavsky

119 Cecilia Rossi Poems from Alejandra Pizarnik’s Works and Nights 128 Terence Cave A memorial note on Edith McMorran and a translation of Aragon’s ‘C’

131 Paul Batchelor An essay on Barry MacSweeney’s Apollinaire

Reviews

137 Antony Wood on Angela Livingstone’s Poems from Chevengur

139 Josephine Balmer on Cliff Ashcroft’s Dreaming of Still Water and

Peter Boyle’s Eugenio Montejo