Poetry Wales - Winter 2010/11 Bassam Frangieh

Poetry Wales - Winter 2010/11 Bassam FrangiehFeatures Pierre Joris and Jean Portante Whales, Ghosts and Nomads: a Dialogue on Multilingual Poetry Richard Gwyn The Green Whale of Summer: Reflections on Latin American Poetry, Part 1 Tiffany Atkinson The Uses of Difficulty: writing in the margins of W. S. Graham Poetry in Translation Katherine M Hedeen translated Jos ngel Leyva and Victor Rodrguez Nez, Richard Gwyn translates Nicanor Parra, Claribel Alegra, Ernesto Cardenal, Alejandra Pizarnik,

pulled along by a thread of emotion

its gorgeous peacock feathers and fading glamour

he founded the Irish Literary Revival website in 2006

Extracts from Midnight

The non-transparent water shows time

The New Pornography

wherever he may be

Hamdy Abowgliel Excerpts from Thieves in Retirement

A rose-covered cottage could mean isolation

Leslie Thompson (1901–87) was born in Jamaica

There is also a large selection of Peruvian poets and a substantial overflow from Russian poets for whom room could not be found in MPT 10

Duna Ghali – Excerpt from the novel When the Scent Awakens