New European Poets Book

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

ABOUT THE POETS

ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS

ABOUT THE EDITORS

PERMISSION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS