Spring 2008 | Vol. 43 Issue 4

Description

Robert Minhinnick’s last issue as Editor.

Features an interview with Meic Stephens, Editor of the Library of Wales’ Poetry 1900 – 2000, and Poetry 1900 – 2000 reviewed by Ian Gregson. Also a piece on Bridges and Borders by European Editor Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese; Andrea Bianchi and Silvana Siviero on translators at Ty Newydd, and Elin ap Hywel considers ‘The Song and not the Singer’.

Also, a personal memory of a ‘Sonic Pioneer’: Henri Chopin (1922 – 2008), by Duncan Bush.

Poems by Dannie Abse, Bengt Berg, Ernst Jandl, WD Ehrhart,  Christopher Meredith, Graham Thomas,  Sheenagh Pugh, Andrea Bianchi,  Anna Wigley, Anneke Brassinga, Partaw Naderi, K Michel, Vuyelwa Carlin, Maria Barnas, Jerzy Jarniewicz, Oliver Reynolds, Julia Fiedorczuk, Richard Marggraf Turley, Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkalo, Duncan Bush, Stephen Rodefer.

Reviews: John Barnie looks at RS Thomas: Poetry and Theology; Zoë Brigley reviews Stone Milk by Anne Stevenson; Owain Wilkins reviews four new collections from John Freeman, Mike Jenkins, Catherine Smith and Brian Turner; Lyndon Davies examines the work of Hungarian poet, Attila József and a selection of Catalan poems from 1978 to 2002; Grahame Davies considers Hanner Cant by Iwan Llwyd; The selected later poems of John Ashberry fail to delight Ian Gregson, and John Francis Phillimore reviews Italian translations of poetry from Wales.