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Contents
‘CONTEMPORARY WORLD POETRY’ SPECIAL ISSUE
featuring
James Sutherland Smith, Ivan Laucik, Hans van de Waarsenburg, Tomas Salamun,
Ales Debeljak, Iztok Osojnik, Kwame Dawes, Reetika Vazirani, Zoran Anchevski,
Liljana Dirjan, Bogomil Gjuzel, Amir Or, Muniam Alfaker, Ditte Steensballe,
Tessa Ransford, Sybil Kollar, Ronny Someck, Erik Stinus, Andy McCord, Siraj
Aurangabadi, Liv Lundburg, Sudeep Sen, Daniel Wiessbort, Penelope Mason,
Dorji Penjore, Moon Chung Hee, Danielle Schaub, Farida Majid, Kaiser Haq,
Hayat Saif, Aminur Rahman, Ann Rouse, Carole Stone, Di Brandt, Alamgir
Hashmi, Agata Tuszynska, Abhi Subedi, Eleanor Schumeir, and others.
plus
FICTION & NON-FICTION
by Peter Bradshaw, Cicely Havely, Aftab Seth, and others.
INTERVIEW
Homi Bhaba interviewed by Ziaul Karim.
PHOTOGRAPHS
by Noazesh Ahmed.
and
REVIEWS/LITERARY ESSAYS
CONTRIBUTORS
Noazesh Ahmed is a
naturalist and photographer from Bangladesh.
Muniam Alfaker is a Iranian poet who was born in Baghdad in 1953. His
numerous collection of poems include, Together, Traces on Water, A Cloud in
Flight, among others. He currntly lives in Denmark.
Zoran Anchevski is a Macedonian poet who teaches in Skopje. His
Selected
Poems in English translations is forthcoming shortly from Aark Arts, London.
Siraj Aurangabadi was one of the leading Urdu ghazal exponent.
Aditya Behl teaches at University of California at Berkeley. He co-edited
with David Nicholls, The Penguin New Writing in India in 1994.
Homi Bhabha is one of the world’s foremost post-colonial critics.
Peter Bradshaw’s debut novel
Lucky Baby Jesus was released through Little
Brown and Abacus in London. He is the film critic of The Guardian newspaper.
Di Brandt is a Canadian poet.
Kwame Dawes was born in Ghana and grew up in the Carribbean. He has
published several poetry collections, the latest being Midlands. His first
book, Progeny of Air, won the pretigious Forward Poetry Prize in Britain. He
teaches at University of South Carolina (USA).
Ales Debeljak is a Slovenian poet and scholar. His latest book is titled
Dictionary of Silence.
Liljana Dirjan’s Macedonian poems in English translation,
Cocoon, appeared
in 1999.
Bogomil Gjuzel is one of the leading Macedonian poets and the director of
the Struga Poetry Festival.
Kaiser Haq’s newest collection of poems,
The Logopathic Reviewer’s Song, is
due out this year. He is Professor of English at Dhaka University.
Alamgir Hashmi is a leading Pakistani poet in English. His latest
collection, A Choice of Hashmi’s Verse was published by Oxford University
Press, Karachi in 1998.
Cicely Havely is professor of English at the Open University. She is on the
editorial board of The English Review, and lives in Oxford.
Moon Chung Hee is one of the leading Korean poets. She works as an editor
and professor.
Ziaul Karim is the literary editor of the Bangladeshi English-language
newspaper, The Daily Star.
Sybil Kollar is a poet and short story writer and lives New York City. In
1998 she published a chapbook of poems, In Rooms We Come and Go.
Ivan Laucik’s translations by Viera and James Sutherland Smith appears in
this issue.
Liv Lundburg lives and teaches at University of Troms in Norway. Her new
collection of poems in English translation, Poetry, came out this year. Her
poems have been translated into innumerable languages and she has read her
work at many international festivals.
Farida Majid, formerly the editor and publisher of the Salamander Imprint in
London, now lives in New York City.
Penelope Mason lives and works in London.
Andy McCord is a poet, translator, and, publisher of Alef Books. He lives
and works in New York City.
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is the editor of Oxford India
Twelve Modern Indian
Poets. His last book of poems is titled, Transfiguring Places.
Amir Or was born in Tel Aviv in 1956. His poetry collections include:
Day,
so!, Ransoming the Dead, Faces, among others. He has translated Stories from
the Mahabharata, and Limb Lossening Desire: An Anthology of Erotic Greek
Poetry. He is the founder-director and editor of Helicon.
Iztok Osojnik is a poet and translator and the head of the Slovene Writers’
Union. He directs the Vilenica Poetry Festival.
Dorji Penjore is a young poet from Bhutan. He works for the government in
Thimpu.
Aminur Rahman’s first book of English translations of his Bengali poems,
Love and Other Poems, came out this year from Aark Arts in London. He lives
in Dhaka.
Tessa Ransford has published many volumes of poems. She was formerly the
director of The Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh.
Anne Rouse is an American poet living in England. She has published two
collections from Bloodaxe.
Hayat Saif ’s English translations of his Bengali poems,
Selected Poems, has
just been released in Dhaka. He represented Bangladesh in the recent
Medellin Poetry Festival in Colombia.
Tomas Salamun is one of the leading Slovenian poets. He has published
several collection of poems, including Selected Poems (1988), The Four
Questions of Melancholy (1997), and the latest being, Feast from Harcourt in
2000.
Danielle Schaub lives and teaches at Haifa University in Israel. She has
wriiten a book on the Canadian author, Mavis Gallant.
Eleneor Schumeir
Sudeep Sen’s Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems
(HarperCollins) was
awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship (UK) and nominated for a Pushcart Prize
(USA). He has published in TLS, Guardian, Independent, London Magazine,
Harvard Review, among others.
Aftab Seth’s collection of poems, Pillars of a Landscape,
was published by
Ravi Dayal in New Delhi. He is currently the Indian Ambassador in Japan.
James Sutherland Smith is a British poet, currently working for The British
Council in Slovakia. His latest book, At the Skin Resort, appeared from Arc
in 1999 in England.
Ronny Someck was born in Baghdad in 1951 and came to Israeli at age 2, and
now lives in Tel Aviv. His book of selected poems, Jasmine, appeared in
1995. He has been involved in many collaborative multimedia productions,
including with the jazz musician Elliot Sharp. His forthcoming book, Rice
Paradise, is forthcoming from Dryad Press.
Ditte Steensballe is an young Danish poet and children’s fiction writer.
Erik Stinus is a leading Danish poet, translator, and anthologist. He lives
in Copenhagen.
Carole Stone is an American poet who teaches at Montclair State University
in New Jersey.
Abhi Subedi is an English-language poet from Nepal. He is a professor of
English at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu.
Agata Tuszynska is a leading young Polish critic and poet. Her latest volume
of verse titled, A Long Life of a Temptress, was named Poland’s
Book-of-the-Month.
Reetika Vazirani is the author of White Elephants which received a Barnard
New Women Poets’ Prize. Poems from her second book, World Hotel (forthcoming
in 2002), appear in Best American Poetry 2000, The 2000 Pushcart Prize
Anthology, The New American Poets, The Paris Review, and others. She lives
in Trenton, New Jersey.
Hans van de Waarsenburg is a German poet who has published several volumes
of verse. He also directs the Maastrict Poetry Festival.
Daniel Wiessbort is the editor of
Modern Poetry in Translation, that he
co-founded with Ted Hughes. He has edited and published several books, the
most recent, his own volume of poems, What Was All the Fuss About? (Anvil,
2000).
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