Balkan Exchange : Eight Poets from Bulgaria and Britain

by Dimitrova, Kristin

• ISBN13: 9781904614401
• ISBN10: 190461440X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-30
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

This exciting anthology maps a singular encounter between two groups of poets--one based in Bulgaria and the other in England--working together as writers, editors, and teachers to create a diverse body of original poetry and new translations.

Table of Contents

Kristin Dimitrova
Love story	p. 19
Times	p. 19
Passing on	p. 21
Seaside holiday	p. 21
Party at the home for the disabled	p. 23
The poet with the hole in his middle	p. 23
My friend	p. 25
Art on Slaveikov Square	p. 27
Postcard to our brothers, the little green men	p. 27
Examination	p. 29
It's almost cosy	p. 31
Cold War memories	p. 31
The writer	p. 33
Three ships	p. 35
2002 : an odyssey	p. 35
Andy Croft
Wine, roses and poisoned umbrellas	p. 41
There was a spirit in Europe	p. 43
Martenitsa	p. 46
Kartichka ot Sofia	p. 46
Rotunda	p. 47
The Baron Munchausen Bar, Sofia	p. 47
Georgi Gospodinov
Eleven attempts at a definition	p. 55
The hunter's wife	p. 59
Love	p. 59
God	p. 59
On invention	p. 59
The love rabbit	p. 61
Hey Jude, 7'09"	p. 63
News	p. 65
Tea with milk	p. 65
A bee	p. 67
Suicide	p. 67
Photograph II	p. 69
Global autumn	p. 71
Photograph IV	p. 73
Gabriela's dog	p. 75
Mark Robinson
Eleven attempts at an explanation	p. 79
1300 monument Sofia	p. 80
Botev v Locomotiv, March 2005, added helicopters	p. 80
Esperanto Anonyme	p. 81
Return	p. 82
When the bees are gathering honey	p. 83
Re-entry blues	p. 84
Nadya Radulova
Russian monument	p. 91
Fairy lights	p. 91
White goods for lovers	p. 95
Edison	p. 97
Poste Restante	p. 97
Victoria Inn	p. 99
The small Rembrandt	p. 101
Vinea Mea Electa	p. 103
Glass	p. 103
Linda France
Stamps of Bulgaria	p. 109
East	p. 112
Hors d'oeuvres	p. 112
Broken music	p. 113
Nightology	p. 113
Outing	p. 114
Pollination	p. 114
Treasure	p. 115
VBV
A.	p. 121
Neareast	p. 121
Armenia's childhood	p. 123
V.	p. 125
Strange vista	p. 125
The Caucuses	p. 127
The pregnant officer	p. 129
Man-to-man	p. 133
War	p. 135
W. N. Herbert
Afterwards	p. 143
An approach	p. 143
Ghost guests	p. 144
Hram-Pametnik Aleksander Nevski	p. 145
Dvoyanka	p. 146
Red Lullaby	p. 147
The double blessing	p. 147
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