ToC PSR 12 - Poetry Salzburg Review

CONTENTS

Editorial 1

Paul MULDOON The Rowboat 3

William BEDFORD Glancing 6

Kate NOAKES Easter Beans 18
Thames Jacket 19
Calling 19
Front Door Key 20
Resolve 20

Alan Jude MOORE Navigation 21

Michael GERRARD An Attempted Exposition of Music 22

D. M. de SILVA In the Mirabell Gardens 24

Danielle HOPE December 25

Peter DENT Rainmakers 26
Incidental Expenses 27

Miriam HALAHMY Making Tea for Rafael 28

Kevin DONNELLY Term Time in the Mid-Eighties 29

Sue BUTLER Mascot 30
Deconstruction 31

Alyson TORNS In Lagos with Yannis Ritsos 32

Jeff HILSON Corvus corone corone (carrion crow) 37
Pyrrhula pyrrhula (bullfinch)
Grus grus (common crane)

Carl DAVIS Red Shift 38
Destination Flow 38

Alfred CELESTINE The Witchdoctor’s Wife Looks towards

the New World 40

A Quiet Meditation at L’Arco near

Victoria Station 41

Fiona SAMPSON, interviewed by Ruth O’Callaghan 42
Diminishing the Distance

Paul STUBBS After the Flood 48

Benjamin STAINTON 31.12.99 51
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W. S. MILNE ‘As the leaves take to the roads’ 52
As You Trailed Your Hands 54
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Frances PRESLEY Stones above Ullswater 56
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Michael WRIGHT Mummy 58
Trapping the Memory 59
No life is inviolate
60
Christopher BARNES Masterclass 61
McMalley’s Gractengordel
62
Stephen DEVEREUX Reclining Nude with Outstretched
Arms, 1917 67
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Lucinda CAREY Harbour Entrance 69

Andrew DUNCAN Brains Working Through Their 70
Blue Hats 70
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Eino LEINO, translated by Pentti Rautaharju 73
Elegy 80
Asleep in the Forest 81
Nocturne 82

Marina TSVETAEVA, translated by Belinda Cooke 83
A Dialogue between Hamlet and 86
His Conscience 91
Ophelia to Hamlet 93
Insomnia 94

Ruth O’CALLAGHAN Departures and Silences

Ruth O’CALLAGHAN Reading the Stones
Cloths

Norman BULLER Eager Tomb

Fred BEAKE Charles Hobday’s Poetry:
A Personal Appreciation

Charles HOBDAY Aftermath
Dissenters: 1683
Letter to W. H. Auden
Instructions for My Funeral

Pat EARNSHAW Dead Man’s Passage 96
Clear Air Turbulence 97

Richard MARTIN Accustomed 99

Glen CAVALIERO Among the Farthest Hebrides 100

D. M. de SILVA Two Americans and an Englishman 104

Mark TERRILL A Poem for Philosophers 114

Emily C. BELLI Expatriation 115

Pansy MAURER-ALVAREZ 116
All Night the Poems 116
First Awareness of the Blue Line 117
“Without Noise or Spectacle”

Jeffery BEAM Bridge of a Thousand Whys 118
To Burn a Field 118
The Poppy Suite 118

John LEVY Two Poems 121
How Many Trees Do You Hear? 122
Orgasm, Penciled In 123
Waiting for the Bus in
Mid-September 124
Heaven 125

Suzanne R. HARVEY Sheltering the Enemy 126
Marketing Fear 127

Justin VICARI Green Bouquets 128
It Is Impossible to Defend
Knowledge Anymore 129
Planes 129

Susan TEPPER Tangled 130

Philip KOBYLARZ At Eleven O’Clock, Murder 131

Oliver RICE A Child Coughing Deep in Her Chest 134

Monica McFAWN Hill Enclave 135
Against a Backdrop 136

Michael FREY Solitude Overture 138

Hsien Min TOH Aubergines 139

Daniel KING Pope St Linus 140
Narcissus 141
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Robert James BERRY Fine Country 145
Clutha Bar 146
Meads 147
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Siobhan HARVEY Tooth 150
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Iain BRITTON Fish Don’t Care 152
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Arun GAUR School Boys 153
A Shutter 154
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Anjana BASU The Last Rock 158
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Jeremy HILTON “west of fallen rocks” 160
“summit fog blown” 161
“an unmarked grave …” 167
From “traces”
From “polar weave” 173

Robert SHEPPARD Voices Over 180
Reading ‘The Poem …’ 180
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Damian SMYTH On the Third Persepolitan Writing 184

Alice NOTLEY From Above the Leaders 184
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Frances PRESLEY Humour and Gravity: 186
The Poetry of Alice Notley

Contemporary Austrian Poetry
translated by David Malcolm and
Wolfgang Görtschacher

Ilse AICHINGER Correspondence
Counted up

Robert SCHINDEL The Eater of Beef (Nocturno)

Peter TURRINI Why do you complain
When they wouldn’t let me
play football
When the lads …

Notes on Contributors