Summer 2006 | Vol. 42 Issue 1

Description

Features:
– An account on translating Chinese poets by Pascale Petit
– The first of a three part series exploring the ‘Mind of Cynghanedd’ by R.M. Jones
– Poetry Wales interviews Menna Elfyn
– Matthew Jarvis reviews Lynette Roberts’ Collected Poems
– Owen Sheers talks Columbians and poetic influences.

Poems by Oliver Reynolds, Wulf Kirsten/Stefan Tobler, Richard Turley, John Hartley Williams, Joanna Preston, Menna Elfyn, Damian Walford Davies, Mac Test, Meirion Jordan, David Castilló, Margalida Pons, Lluis Solà, Patrick Gifreu, Kelly Grovier, David Foster-Morgan, Judith Kazantzis.

Works reviewed include titles by: Peter Finch, Nigel Jenkins, Ian Gregson, and W.S. Merwin
– Chris McCully looks at Michael Donaghy’s Safest and Playing With Fire by Grevel Lindop
– Amy Wack reflects on selected works by Dorothy Molloy, Arnold Rattenbury, Matthew Francis, and Peter Redgrove
– Ian Gregson’s Call Centre Love Song is reviewed by John Redmond
– Iwan Llwyd looks at the translation of Cathal O Searcaigh’s By the Hearth/ in Min a’ Leà.