The Night Begins with a Question XXV Austrian Poems

by Galbraith, Iain; Bamforth, Iain

• ISBN13: 9781857549157
• ISBN10: 1857549155
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

A varied anthology, this book documents the development of Austrian poetry from the 1970s to the present day. Translated by Scottish poets in the context and the company of some of their Austrian contemporaries, each poem seeks its own, often volatile space, and categories like "British," "Scottish" or "Austrian" are too narrow to frame the imaginative reach of a single authentic poem. While these poems are authentically Austrian, they are permeated by the greater world and penned by recognized poets, including Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Friederike Mayrocker, and Evelyn Schlag.

Author Biography

Iain Galbraith is a poet, translator, and editor. His poetry has appeared in the Best Scottish Poems 2005, New Writing 14, New Writing Scotland, PN Review, and Times Literary Supplement.

Table of Contents

Bohemia, a country by the sea

The larch

Since then

Angel esterminador

Trakl-Haus, Salzburg

Swiss army knife

Four hundred children in the snow

Salerno

Capital of language

Homeland romance or peace litany, ground night nature (For Holderlin 11)

Three globes

Velden

Divining

For Zoe

Tigerpaper

In the middle of the country

'Finally & at last this'

Mountains and vile soup

Reconciliation

Physical optics

'Fruit tree blossom between bushes'

'I for instance have been lad, girl, plant'

Manu scriptum or the horse-shoe gain (after Osip Mandelstam)

Connecting train

'Dearest be cheerful'

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