Contents

1 Editorial 5 The next issue of MPT 7 Paula Ludwig, seven poems, translated from the German by

Martina Thomson 15 Primo Levi, ten poems, translated from the Italian by Marco

Sonzogni and Harry Thomas 25 Oliver Reynolds, ‘& c’ 27 John E. Smelcer, three poems, translated from the Ahtna

Athabaskan language of Alaska by the author 30 Ho Chi Minh’s Prison Diary, translated from the Vietnamese by Timothy Allen 50 Sándor Márai, Unknown Chinese Poet, translated from the

Hungarian by John M. Ridland and Peter Czipott 62 Cesare Pavese, six poems, translated from the Italian by

Martin Bennett 69 Archilochus, Fragments, translated from the Ancient Greek by William Heath 72 Yorgos Soukoulis, ‘Rabies’, translated from the Arvanitika by

Peter Constantine 75 Konstantinos Sampanis, two poems, translated from the

Greek by Peter Constantine 79 Osip Mandelstam, ‘The Kremlin Mountain Man’, translated from the Russian by Andrew Mayne 82 Osip Mandelstam, poems from the Voronezh Notebooks,

translated from the Russian by Peter France 87 Osip Mandelstam, poems from the Moscow and the

Voronezh Notebooks, translated from the Russian by Alex Cigale 94 Vladimir Mayakovsky, ‘Verses about a Soviet passport’,

translated from the Russian by Stephen Capus 99 Larisa Miller and Boris Altshuler, interviewed by Sasha

Dugdale