Table of Contents
Part II BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
MILE STOJIC
House on Ice
FERIDA DURAKOVIC
Paper Tea
SEMEZDIN MEHMEDINOVIC
War
MILJENKO JERGOVIC
Feldwebel Zorn's Motorcycle
SENADIN MUSABEGOVIC
Dawn at Auschwitz
CROATIA
BRANKO MALEŠ
Crystal
ANKA ŽAGAR
Journey
BRANKO CEGEC
Eyes, Ears, Mirrors
DELIMIR REŠICKI
Radio
KRESIMIR BAGIC
a house
DAMIR ŠODAN
Durruti 1936
TATJANA GROMACA
I Like It When You Come Around with Your Friends
SLOVENIA
BORIS A. NOVAK
Uni-verse
ALEŠ DEBELJAK
Cast Vote
BARBARA KORUN
Every Breath You Take
UROŠ ZUPAN
May
ALEŠ ŠTEGER
The Returning of What Is to Come
HUNGARY
IMRE ORAVECZ
Soldier's Graves
The Hole
ÁKOS SZILAGYI
O!
You Think
BÉLA BODOR
What to Expect
ANDRAS PETÖCZ
The Lake at Dawn
A Banal Poem. Subject: Love
In Praise of the Sea
FLÓRA IMRE
Snow Covers the Garden
SLOVAKIA
MILA HAUGOVÁ
To Withstand Evil
Alpha Centauri
DANA PODRACKÁ
A Diary
JOZEF URBAN
I Blow My Nose Inartistically
IVAN KOLENIC
Skin Is a Wrapping of Bones
RÓBERT GÁL
from Epigraffiti
MARTIN SOLOTRUK
How to Endure the Sun if Not Tiptoeing
CZECH REPUBLIC
IVANA BOZDECHOVÁ
Everyday Occurrence
SYLVA FISHEROVÁ
The Only Place
The Language of the Fountains
Eggs, Newspaper, and Coffee
PETR HRUŠKA
Door
At the Claws
PETR BORKOVEC
[We do what? We are involved in space,]
KATERINA PINOSOVÁ
from Lake Poems
KATERINA RUDCENKOVÁ
[Yes, I live inside the piano,]
Nowhere
POLAND
PIOTR SOMMER
A Certain Tree in Powazki
Cemetery
Space
Don't Sleep, Take Notes
BOZENA KEFF
What's in my pocket
Dream of the Meaning of Dreams
ANDRZEJ SOSNOWSKI
Five Fathoms Down
Errata
MARCIN SWIETLICKI
Preface
Song of the Ill
EUGENIUSZ TKACZYSZYN-DYCKI
Foodstone
In the hallway of the regional hospital
MARZANNA BOGUMILA KIELAR
[Frost ropes in the ditch: nothing could break through,]
Winter Elegy
Early Spring
KRZYSZTOF KOEHLER
[A new language: the language]
[Two columns of smoke]
MARCIN SENDECKI
Good Later
[A little coat, white up till now,]
EWA SONNENBERG
Internal Manifesto I
Uncertainty
ADAM WIEDMANN
Notable Essay: Music
Calypso
DARIUSZ SUSKA
Light
Death is the top player in our playground
ARTUR SZLOSAREK
Imagination
Temptation
BELARUS
VICTAR SHALKEVICH
[I want to tell you what speaks to me most—]
MIKHAS BAJARYN
[creating a homer is less complicated than you might imagine]
ANDREJ KHADANOVICH
Commedia
VIKTAR ŽYBUL
[I don't want to be the navel of the Earth.]
VALZHYNA MORT
Belarusian I
Belarusian II
[Maybe you too sometimes fantasize]
UKRAINE
OLEH LYSHEHA
Song 551
Song 352
NATALKA BILOTSERKIVETS
Hotel Central
YURKO ANDRUKHOVYCH
Jamaica the Cossack
OKSANA ZABUZHKO
A Definition of Poetry
Letter from the Summer House
VICTOR NEBORAK
What He Does . . .
Flying Head
ANDRIY BONDAR
the men of my country
SERHIY ZHADAN
Alcohol
RUSSIA
ELENA SHVARTS
Remembrance of Strange
Hospitality
REGINA DERIEVA
Theory of Recruiting
[From a land of institutes to a land of prostitutes.]
Dark thoughts
OLGA SEDAKOVA
Female Figure
ALEXANDER EREMENKO
[Dip us in fire or water,]
SERGEY GANDLEVSKY
To My Mother
EVGENII BUNIMOVICH
Excuse and Explanation
IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA
[I will live and survive and be asked:]
TATYANA SHCHERBINA
About Limits
ALEXEI PARSHCHIKOV
Estuary
KATIA KAPOVICH
Parting makes simple sense
VERA PAVLOVA
Four Poems
DMITRY GOLYNKO
Passing the Church of the French Consulate
BORIS RYZHII
Cinema
POLINA BARSKOVA
Manuscript Found by Natasha Rostova During the Fire to A.K
DARYA SUKHOVEI
Spring Scales
LITHUANIA
EUGENIJUS ALIŠANKA
from the case of bones
GINTARAS GRAJAUSKAS
World in Your Pocket
The Night Watchman
DAIVA ÈEPAUSKAITË
Love, a Last Glance
NERINGA ABRUTYTE
The Beginning
LAURYNAS KATKUS
Later On
Žvërynas in Winter
MARIUS BUROKAS
Simpleton
LATVIA
LIÂNA LANGA
Galanteria N. I, 7, 9
INGA ABELE
Autumn Recipe
INGA GAILE
The wind smooths out all the wrinkles and light beacons in our eyes,
To leave, flee, lope, swim away with
RONALDS BRIEDIS
Silence
Before addressing the people
ESTONIA
ASKO KÜNNAP
O night, my car
FS
[we are born in hospitals]
[the hangover in our shared body]
KARL MARTIN SINIJÄRV
I am a Poemmaker
Arcadia
ELO VIIDING
The Extraordinary Importance of a Private Life
FINLAND
TUA FORSSTRÖM
It's beautiful in Sicily in the spring when the lemon trees are in bloom
from Minerals
ILPO TIIHONEN
Septet to the Great Bear
LEEVI LEHTO
A Sliced Guitar
MARTIN ENCKELL
Saint Petersburg
LAURI OTONKOSKI
Herbal Wisdom
from The Poetry Track
HELENA SINERVO
Postcard
ANNI SUMARI
Fete
SÁPMI
NILS ASLAK VALKEAPÄÄ
from Trekways of the Wind
SWEDEN
ARNE JOHNSSON
Sketch XXV
from Part of this and separate as everyone
BRUNO K. ÖIJER
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KATARINA FROSTENSON
Echo's Gorge
Sonnet from Shadow of a Gift
EVA RUNEFELT
Carnation
The Slowness
ELISABETH RYNELL
The Womb
ANN JÄDERLUND
three poems from Soon into the Summer I Will Walk Out
MAGNUS WILLIAM-OLSSON
(Analogia)
HÅKAN SANDELL
Nature Motre: iv. On an Eggshell
NORWAY
BJØRN AAMODT
Five untitled poems
TOR ULVEN
[They dance far]
ØYSTEIN WINGAARD WOLF
The Soapmaker
[Your left hand]
HENNING KRAMER DAHL
Practicing Ballerina
CATHERINE GRØNDAHL
Selected Exercises in Case Law II
The Law Is the Mediterranean
PERDRO CARMONA-ALVAREZ
60 Minutes
CORNELIUS JAKHELLN
Sèma (sign).
[Not to be is Nothing's only quality.]
ICELAND
ELÍSABET JÖKULSDÓTTIR
The Divorce Children
GYRDIR ELÍSSON
Nocturne
KRISTIN ÓMARSDÓTTIR
Closed Bridal Night
SIGURBJÖRG THRASTARDÓTIR
And Your Tears
DENMARK
PIA JUUL
Novel
NIELS FRANK
Conspiracies
In the Californian Back Yard
ADDA DJØRUP
The Nth day of the Nth Month
GERMANY
ULLA HAHN
Respectable Sonnet
URSULA KRECHEL
My Mother
ANGELA KRAUSS
Leipzig, 1999
GERHARD FALKNER
You Sleep
KURT DRAWERT
You Sleep
BERT PAPENFUSS
on edge
THOMAS KLING
stratum I (petrarch)
stratum III (beatrice)
UWE KOLBE
Never now anywhere
DIETER M. GRÄF
While Dancing: A Paradigm
ZEHRA ÇIRAK
Friendly Fire
KERSTIN HENSEL
At the Flea Market
ZAFER SENOCAK
M
ULRIKE DRAESNER
hyacinth colic
DURS GRÜNBEIN
In the Provinces 2 (In Gotland)
LUTZ SEILER
concrete
ULF STOLTERFOHT
Jargons IV (2)
MARCEL BEYER
Snow
NICOLAI KOBUS
anna
JAN WAGNER
fall villanelle
JAN VOLKER RÖHNERT
Longing Is a Blind Sail . . .
DANIEL FALB
a social still life in the line of Vermeer
TOBIAS GRÜTERICH
5 aphorisms
STEFFEN POPP
Silvae (lit)
ULJANA WOLF
Recovery Room
AUSTRIA/LICHTENSTEIN
EVELYN SCHLAG
Lesson
MICHAEL DONHAUSER
The Apple
PETER WATERHOUSE
About What Is a Hand And What Is in the Hand
OSWALD EGGER
[Only, sometimes coast herons fly in a low V]
RAOUL SCHROTT
Twilight Phenomena II
HELWIG BRUNNER
[Reading into the face how the skin]
THE NETHERLANDS
EVA GERLACH
Leda
Fed Up
TONNUS OOSTERHOF
There was a man
Button Box
Secret Agent
MARJOLEINE DE VOS
Mrs. Despina sees a rhinoceros
Mrs. Despina goes swimming
Death he has your voice
ESTHER JANSMA
from Picnic on the Spiral Staircase
NACHOEM M. WIJNBERG
I Am a Doctor
Psalm
In the dream of an angel
BELGIUM
WILLIAM CLIFF
Ballade of the Mouse
WERNER LAMBERSY
from Linnaeus' clock
STEPHAN HERTMANS
Death on a pale horse
First Steps
While sketching
ERIK SPINOY
from Susette
ENGLAND
MIMI KHALVATI
Ghazal
SELIMA HILL
North Carolina
DENISE RILEY
Milk Ink
SEAN O'BRIEN
Cities
JO SHAPCOTT
Phrase Book
MONIZA ALVI
Fish
BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH
White Comedy
MARK FORD
We Crave
GLYN MAXWELL
State of the Nation
SIMON ARMITAGE
Kid
FIONA SAMPSON
Hayfever portrait
WALES
SHEENAGH PUGH
Golden Rabbits
GWYNETH LEWIS
Mother Tongue
SCOTLAND
JOHN BURNSIDE
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
ROBERT CRAWFORD
A Scottish Assembly
W. N. HERBERT
Scaldfoot
JACKIE KAY
Virus
KATHLEEN JAMIE
Wee wifey
DON PATERSON
An Elliptical Stylus
DREW MILNE
A modest preposition
NORTHERN IRELAND
CIARAN CARSON
The Words
MEDBH MCGUCKIAN
On Ballycastle Beach
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
NUALA NÍ DHOMHNAILL
The Language Issue
VONA GROARKE
The Riverbed
CONOR O'CALLAGHAN
The Pilot Light
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