Oxford Poets Anthology 2013 - Softcover

Iain Galbraith; Robyn Marsack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906188106 ISBN 13: 9781906188108

Publisher: OxfordPoets, 2013

Synopsis

Featuring poetry by Gregor Addison, David Attwooll, Emily Ballou, Paul Batchelor, Christy Ducker, Lynn Jenner, Riina Katajavuori, David Krump, Frances Leviston, Peter Mackay, Adam Nadasdy, Andre Naffis-Sahely, Vivek Narayanan, Leonie Rushforth, Kerrin P. Sharpe, Ian Stephen, Toh Hsien Min, Jan Wagner, Karen McCarthy Woolf This anthology brings together the work of nineteen poets from a dozen different countries, with translations from at least seven languages, to provide a rich mix of contemporary voices. Here you can move from the Australian desert to an English coal mine, from the interior world of Grace Darling to the mythic world of the Ramayana, from earthquakes in New Zealand to gardens in France. A common thread is migration, in many senses; another is the beguilements and betrayals of memory. The poets' own reflections on their writing provide insight into the cultural and personal contexts of work that expands the vocabulary of poetry in English.

About this title

Review:

"There are some fine poets collected here . . . as a showcase of an upcoming generation . . . we have something genuinely worthwhile." --Sarah Crown, Guardian

About the Author:

Iain Galbraith studied Modern and Medieval Languages and Comparative Literature at the universities of Cambridge, Freiburg and Mainz. A widely published, prize-winning translator of German writing, especially poetry, he has also translated a dozen British and Irish plays into German, with productions at more than a hundred theatres in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He has edited books by Conrad, Stevenson, Scott, Boswell and Hogg for a classics series, and contributed essays to a wide range of journals and books. His own most recent poems have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, New Writing 14, PN Review, New Writing Scotland and Best Scottish Poems 2005. His recent book publications include - as editor - Intime Weiten: XXV Schottische Gedichte (2006) and Michael Hamburger: Pro Domo: Selbstauskunfte, Ruckblicke und andere Prosa (2007), and he is the translator of Alfred Kolleritsch: Selected Poems and Peter Waterhouse: Selected Poems, both in 2007.

New Zealand-born Robyn Marsack has been Director of the Scottish Poetry Library since 2000. After moving to Scotland in 1987, she worked as a freelance editor, critic and translator, and has had a long editorial association with Carcanet Press. Her published work includes studies of Louis MacNeice and Sylvia Plath. With Andrew Johnston, she co-edited the anthology Twenty Contemporary New Zealand Poets (Carcanet 2009). She lives in Glasgow.

About this edition

• Publisher: OxfordPoets
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1906188106
• ISBN 13: 9781906188108
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 215
• Editor: Iain Galbraith, Robyn Marsack