Contents
Publisher’s Note
Foreword by Daniel Barenboim
Foreword by Mariam C. Said
Poems
Adonis / Khaled Mattawa
Khaled Mattawa
Abbas Beydoun / Bill Manhire
Durs Grünbein / Matthew Sweeney
Iman Mersal / Elaine Feinstein
Homero Aridjis / Kathleen Jamie
Reza Mohammadi / Nick Laird
Antonella Anedda / Jamie McKendrick
Amjad Nasser / Fady Joudah
Don Paterson
Fatemeh Shams / Dick Davis
Gilles Ortlieb / Sean O’Brien
Mourid Barghouti / George Szirtes
Jaan Kaplinski / Sasha Dugdale
Nujoom Alghanem / Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Raoul Schrott / Paul Farley
Mohammed Bennis / Sinéad Morrissey
Aleš Šteger / Brian Henry
Gonca Özmen / Jo Shapcott
Angélica Freitas / Tara Bergin
Hafez Mousavi / Daisy Fried
Clara Janés / Lavinia Greenlaw
Fadhil Al-Azzawi / Jorie Graham
Jan Wagner / Robin Robertson
Essays
Sibylle Wentker: Bringing Persia to Germany. Joseph von Hammer and Hafiz
Rajmohan Gandhi: Goethe and ‘the East’ of Today
Robyn Creswell: Playing a Part: Imru’al-Qays in English
Narguess Farzad: Hafiz and the Challenges of Translating Persian Poetry into English
Stefan Weidner: The New Tasks of the Translator
Kadhim J. Hassan: On the Translation of European Poetry into Arabic Culture
Notes on the poems
Notes on the essays
Editors’ Note
Acknowledgements
Biographical notes
Index of poets
Index of poems