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      • PUT YOUR HANDS ON ME: POETRY'S EROTIC ART by Elena Karina Byrne
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           from  ISSUE  XXXI  December 2020

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Agron Shele, Aksinia Mihaylova, Aleš Šteger, Amir Or, Arvis Viguls, Cosmin Perța, David Kinloch, Denisa Duran, Eldar Akhadov, Eleanor Hooker, Gerry van der Linden, Haris Vlavianos, Ivan Štrpka, Jean Portante, Jessica Traynor, Jordi Doce, Christos Koukis, Laura Garavaglia, Leeanne Quinn, Mária Ferenčuhová, Maria do Rosário Pedreira, Mite Stefoski, Monika Herceg, Nikola Madzirov, Nuno Júdice, Richard Price, Shota Iatashvili,Tatev Chakhian, Tom Van de Voorde, Tone Hødnebø, Tuğrul Tanyol, Vasyl Makhno, Yolanda Castaño, Maria João Cantinho, Beste Sakalli and Simona Popescu
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​edited by Rui Cóias
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"Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing  with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring  with replacing the noun. It is doing that always  doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that.  Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and  pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is  what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no  matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a  great many kinds of poetry." 
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[Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. "Poetry and Grammar," Lectures in America, Random House (1935).]
The Irish Special edition launch at the
Cork International Poetry Festival 2017
Why Read War Poetry? by Constance Ruzich
“There is no noise, only sounds”: On the connection between Music and Poetry by Ricardo Marques
On the Poets: Contributors in Context by Donald Gardner
From Self-Portrait with Dogwood: A Route of Evanescence by Christopher Merrill

Punching above its Weight: Dutch Poetry in English, a Selection, 2013-2017 by Jane Draycott

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For a small-ish language community, Dutch writers achieve a remarkable international resonance, and poets seem to have been served exceptionally well by their translators, if recent publications in English are anything to go by. If one was looking for some recurring character across the wide variety of poetic invention among them it might be a kind of lucid wryness and clarity of gaze, an assertion that however historical or mythical association might illuminate our contemporary concerns, the heart of the matter lies under our noses, in the streets and lanes, in our apartments and institutions. Interestingly, the latest translations of entirely new collections – by the marvellous Toon Tellegen and Nachoem M. Wijnberg – fit this paradigm less readily, flying further towards the visionary perhaps, yet even here the world of experience remains entirely this one, the time still absolutely now.

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from the Guest Editor of Issue XXXI
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In this tragic and strange year which we are all living in, when it seems that everything has escaped our awareness, art appears as an old red cherry tree bearing fruit, staying much longer on our lives, comforting us. This edition brings us a route built by European poets and writers, who constitute the construction of this plural continent, a geography and a common culture.
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Book reviews

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International Poetry of the First World War Ed. Constance Ruzich (Bloomsbury, 2020) reviewed by Kathryn White

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Selected Poems by John Glenday (Picador, 2020) reviewed by Eleanor Hooker

Poet in Focus​
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Interview: Ranjit Hoskote in conversation with Sarabjeet Garcha

editors' Recommendations
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November: Poems by Jaspreet Singh (Bayeaux Arts, 2017) reviewed by Christine Wiesenthal
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Waiting for The Light by Alicia Ostriker (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017)
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Between Two Gardens by Laura Quinn Guidry (Alamo Bay Press, 2017)

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Tidal Events- Selected Poems by Mária Ferenčuhová reviewed by Anna Blasiak
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Wings to Soar High, by Amir Or reviewed by Seth Michelson
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War Music – An Account of Homer’s Iliad, Faber and Faber, edited by Christopher Reid
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The Singer of Alleppey by Pramila Venkateswaran, Shanti Arts LLC (2018)
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Ivan Štrpka (30.06.1944) is a Slovak poet. With his kindred spirits, the poets Ivan Laučík and Peter Repka, in the 1960s Štrpka founded an individualistic poetic group, “The Lonely Runners”. He wrote a manifesto for it, which was officially banned. The matters at issue were freedom of thinking, living and making art, the responsibility of the individual, and rejection of communist dictatorship and censorship. ​
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Nuno Júdice (1949) is a Portuguese essayist, poet and fiction writer. He received Spain's Queen Sofia Ibero-American Poetry Prize in 2013. In 1997, he was appointed Cultural Counselor of the Embassy of Portugal and Director of the Camões Institute in Paris. In 2009, he assumed the direction of Colóquio/Letras, the literary magazine of the Gulbenkian Foundation. 
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Amir Or, the 2020 Golden Wreath laureate, has been recognised as a major voice in world literature. His poetry won him national and international awards, including the 1996 Prime Minister award, and the 2019 Homer European Medal of Art and Poetry. 


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János Áfra, Zoltán Csehy, Mónika Ferencz, András Gerevich, Ákos Győrff, Benji Horváth, Tibor Juhász, István Kemény, Árpád Kollár, Dénes Krusovszky, Gábor Lanczkor, Zoltán Lesi, János Marno, Hajnal Csilla Nagy and Others. ​(edited by Lanczkor Gábor ​and Balazs Szollossy)
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John Montague,Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, John W. Sexton, Matthew Geden, James Harpur, Bernard O’Donoghue, Moya Cannon, Mary Noonan, Enda Wyley, Paul Casey, Seán Lysaght, Celia de Fréine and others. (​Edited by Patrick Cotter)
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Martinus Nijhoff, Gerrit Achterberg, M. Vasalis, Hanny Michaelis, Gerrit Kouwenaar, Lucebert, Hans Lodeizen, Mark Boog, Hagar Peeters, Maria Barnas, Alfred Schaffer, Mustafa Stitou, Ramsey Nasr, Kira Wuck, Ester Naomi Perquin, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Donald Gardner and Jane Draycott (Edited by David Colmer)
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.​Anju Makhija, Rizio Yohannan Raj,Manohar Shetty, Arundhathi Subramaniam, A.J. Thomas, Sampurna Chattarji, K.Srilata, Mani Rao, Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih and others. (Edited by Abhay K)
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"A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named." 
[Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Aphorism 114 in Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).] 

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  • Collaborations
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  • Prose on Poetry and Poets
    • 2010-2013 >
      • Sylvia Plath by Dr. Nidhi Mehta >
        • Chapter-1(Sylvia Plath)
        • Chapter-2(Sylvia Plath)
        • Chapter-3(Sylvia Plath)
        • Chapter-4(Sylvia Plath)
        • Chapter-5(Sylvia Plath)
        • Chapter-6(Sylvia Plath)
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        • Chapter-1(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-2(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-3(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-4(Rabindranath Tagore)
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        • Chapter-6(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-7(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-8(Rabindranath Tagore)
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      • Kazi Nazrul Islam by Dr. Shamenaz Shaikh >
        • Chapter 1(Nazrul Islam)
        • Chapter 2(Nazrul Islam)
        • Chapter 3(Nazrul Islam)
      • Kabir's Poetry by Dr. Anshu Pandey >
        • Chapter 1(Kabir's Poetry)
        • Chapter 2(Kabir's Poetry)
        • Chapter 3(Kabir's Poetry)
      • My mind's not right by Dr. Vicky Gilpin >
        • Chapter- 1 Dr. Vicky Gilpin
        • Chapter-2 Dr. Vicky Gilpin
        • Chapter-3 Dr. Vicky Gilpin
        • Chapter-4 Dr. Vicky Gilpin
      • On Poetry & Poets by Abhay K.
      • Poetry of Kamla Das –A True Voice Of Bourgeoisie Women In India by Dr.Shikha Saxena
      • Identity Issues in the Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel by Dr.Arvind Nawale & Prashant Mothe*
      • Nissim Ezekiel’s Latter-Day Psalms: His Religious and Philosophical Speculations By Dr. Pallavi Srivastava
      • The Moping Owl : the Epitome of Melancholy by Zinia Mitra
      • Gary Soto’s Vision of Chicano Experiences: The Elements of San Joaquin and Human Nature by Paula Hayes
      • Sri Aurobindo: A Poet By Aju Mukhopadhyay
      • Wordsworthian Romanticism in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra: Nature and the Reflective Capabilities of a Poetic Self by Paula Hayes
      • Reflective Journey of T.S. Eliot: From Philosophy to Poetry by Syed Ahmad Raza Abidi
      • North East Indian Poetry: ‘Peace’ in Violence by Ananya .S. Guha
    • 2014-2015 >
      • From The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry Adam Wyeth
      • Alchemy’s Drama: Conflict, Resolution and Poiesis in the Poetic Work of Art by Michelle Bitting
      • Amir Khushrau: The Musical Soul of India by Dr. Shamenaz
      • PUT YOUR HANDS ON ME: POETRY'S EROTIC ART by Elena Karina Byrne
      • Celtic and Urban Landscapes in Irish Poetry by Linda Ibbotson
      • Trickster at the African Crossroads and the Bridge to the Blues in America by Michelle Bitting
    • 2015-2016 >
      • Orogeny/Erogeny: The “nonsense” of language and the poetics of Ed Dorn T Thilleman
      • Erika Burkart: Fragments, Shards, and Visions by Marc Vincenz
      • English Women Poets and Indian politics
    • 2016-2017 >
      • Children’s Poetry in India- A Case Study of Adil Jussawalla and Ananya Guha by Shruti Sareen
      • Thirteen Thoughts on Poetry in the Digital Age by Mandy kAHN
    • 2017-2018 >
      • From Self-Portrait with Dogwood: A Route of Evanescence by Christopher Merrill
      • Impure Poetry by Tony Barnstone
      • On the Poets: Contributors in Context by Donald Gardner
      • Punching above its Weight: Dutch Poetry in English, a Selection, 2013-2017 by Jane Draycott
  • Print Editions