June 2004
Sebastião Salgado, "Kuwait. 1991. One of the oil firefighters takes a break."- Naeem Murr
- Christopher Logue
- Roddy Lumsden
- Kathleen Jamie
- George Szirtes
From this Issue
Poem
Many believe in the stars.
Take Quinamid
The son of a Dardanian astrologer
Who disregarded what his father said
And came to Troy in a taxi.
Gone.
Odysseus to Greece:
“Hector has never fought this far from Troy.
We...
Take Quinamid
The son of a Dardanian astrologer
Who disregarded what his father said
And came to Troy in a taxi.
Gone.
Odysseus to Greece:
“Hector has never fought this far from Troy.
We...
Poem
It was winter, near freezing,
I’d walked through a forest of firs
when I saw issue out of the waterfall
a solitary bird.
It lit on a damp rock,
and, as water swept stupidly on,
wrung from its own throat
supple, undammable song.
It isn’t mine to give.
I...
I’d walked through a forest of firs
when I saw issue out of the waterfall
a solitary bird.
It lit on a damp rock,
and, as water swept stupidly on,
wrung from its own throat
supple, undammable song.
It isn’t mine to give.
I...
Table of Contents
Poetry
- Christopher Logue
- Roddy Lumsden
- Kathleen Jamie
- George Szirtes
- Maura Dooley
- Jo Shapcott
- Michael Donaghy
- Gillian Allnutt
- Philip Gross
- Robert Crawford
- John Glenday
- Anne Rouse
- Helen Dunmore
Eight Versions from Rilke's "Sonnets to Orpheus"
Comment
- Michael Hofmann, William Logan
- Naeem Murr
- Sandra M. Gilbert
- Brian Phillips
Letters
- Rita Dove
- Jon Mooallem
- James Scruton
- Cooper Renner
- Jason Gray
- Amy Hartman
- Martin J. Farawell
- David Biespiel
- Milton Rosen
- Catherine Munch
CONTRIBUTORS
- Gillian Allnutt
- David Biespiel
- Robert Crawford
- Michael Donaghy
- Maura Dooley
- Rita Dove
- Helen Dunmore
- Martin J. Farawell
- Sandra M. Gilbert
- John Glenday
- Jason Gray
- Philip Gross
- Amy Hartman
- Michael Hofmann
- Kathleen Jamie
- William Logan
- Christopher Logue
- Roddy Lumsden
- Jon Mooallem
- Catherine Munch
- Naeem Murr
- Don Paterson
- Brian Phillips
- Cooper Renner
- Milton Rosen
- Anne Rouse
- James Scruton
- Jo Shapcott
- George Szirtes