The Poetry Society

Independent Europe

(Volume 80, No 2, Summer 1990)

Editor

Peter Forbes

Independent Europe

Czecholzlovakia: Miroslav Holub: Poetry Against Absurdity; The Third Language (poem); Robert Crawford on Holub's poetry an essays; Dennis O'Driscoll on Sylva Fishcherova; poem by Jana Stroblova; James Sutherland-Smith writes from Slovakia; Ian Milner on Czech Poetry Now; poem by Sylvia Fischerova

Romania: Grete Tartler on the Romanian Revolution; Carol Rumens on Grete Tartler's Orient Express; two poems by Grete Tartler; three poems by Daniela Crasnaru; Fleur Adcock on Nina Casian and Ana Blandiana; poem by Ana Blandiana

Hungary: George Szirtes on Hungarian poetry; four poems by Otto Orban; poem by Gyorgy Petri; Clive Wilmer on Sandor Csoori, Istvan Vas, and Imre Madach; Edwin Morgan on Janos Pilinszky; poem by Attila Jozsef

Germany: Michael Hamburger on German reunification and poetry; four poems by Hans Magnus Enzenberger; Lawrence Sail on Rilke; poem by Guntram Vesper; Michael Hulse on West German poetry; poems by Gunter eich and Erich Fried; BIFF cartoon

Poland: Stephen Romer: Letter from Lodz; poems by Czeslaw Milosz, Ewa Lipska, Bogdan Czaykowski, and Adam Czerniawski

Russia: William Scammell on the Pasternak Centenary volumes; poems by Oley Khlebnikov, Boris Slutsky, and Vladimir Kostrov; Sheenagh Pugh on Irina Ratushinskaya; poems by Natalya Gorbanevskaya and Vyacheslav Kupriyanov

Estonia: Philip Gross on Jaan Kaplinski; poem by Jaan Kaplinski

Finland: Adam Thorpe on FInland-Swedish poetry

Yugoslavia: Richard Burns on Yugoslav poetry; poem by Ivan V. Lalic; David Constantine on Ivan V Lalic

Greece: John Lucas on Greek poetry; Peter Levi on Christopher Logue's Homer and Tom Paulin's Aeschylus; Allon Reich on Tony Harrison's Trackers of Oxyrhynchus

Italy: Jamie McKendrick on Italian poetry; two poems by Primo Levi; two versions of Montale by Jeremy Reed

Spain: Richard Sanger on Lorca and Spanish poetry

France: poems by Yves Bonnefoy and Paul Valery; Mark Hutchinson on French poetry

England: Edna Longley on John Lucas' England and Englishness; Jamie McKendrick on Carol Rumens' poem by Carol Rumens' Francis R. Jones on translation; poems by John Silkin and Katherine Worden

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