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Caracas - by Eugenio Montejo

{ Poem }

The buildings are so high
/ nothing can be seen now of my childhood.
/ I’ve lost my patio with its lazy clouds
/ where the…

Coalend Hill Farm 1962 - by Pippa Little

{ Poem }

I don’t remember the Beanley orra-man,
/ his boots down the lonnen black as a wet day, his caravan
/ under a butchered elm’s…

Castletown, Isle of Man - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

How strange the way old lovers move into the present,
/ tense, and catch you off guard; you tell me
/ when you were…

I Want To Be Buried in Chafteía - by Michalis Ghanas

{ Poem }

Posters are tugging me by the sleeve,
/ Athens my town with all your beauty contests.
/ I want to be buried in Chafteía;
/ twenty…

Mother - by Attila József

{ Poem }

All this last week I have been thinking
of my mother, thinking of her taking
up in her arms the creaking basket
of clothes, without pausing, up to the attic.

Loch Thom - by W. S. Graham

{ Poem }

1
/
/ Just for the sake of recovering
/ I walked backward from fifty-six
/ Quick years of age wanting to see,
/ And managed not to trip…

An Rathad - by Derick Thomson

{ Poem }

’S e rathad geal a bha ruighinn na mara
/ ri mo chiad chuimhne,
/ is a’ chairt ga thachais,
/ a’ chairt ga phronnadh ’s…

Solway - by Elizabeth Burns

{ Poem }

Love unfolded then, like crumpled petals
/ opening into sunlight,
/ unfurling at the stroke of spring
/
/ as we walked the seven miles of estuary,
/ reaching,…

Glainead - by Rody Gorman

{ Poem }

Chaidh do ghlainead a chur nam chuimhne
/ Nuair a sheall mi mach air an uinneig reòtha sa mhadainn
/ ’ S an aon…

Ealghol: Dà Shealladh - by Meg Bateman

{ Poem }

Choimhead mi an t-seann chairt-phuist,
/ na taighean mar fhàs às an talamh,
/ na h-aonaichean nam baidealan os an cionn,
/ nan comharra air mòrachd…

Paragraphs from a Daybook - by Marilyn Hacker

{ Poem }

for Claire Malroux
/
/ On a beechwood sideboard, there sat in state
/ an object whose functional equivalent
/ would be, in American, a trivet,
/ but “trivet”…

Henvendelsen - by Rune Christiansen

{ Poem }

Verden forklarer seg som skritt i grusen, sollys,
/ en kvinne gjenkjenner faren sin (en berøring
/ og litt varm pust, savn uendra gjennom…

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