Contents
1 Editorial 5 The next issue of MPT 7 Paula Ludwig, seven poems, translated from the German by
Martina Thomson 15 Primo Levi, ten poems, translated from the Italian by Marco
Sonzogni and Harry Thomas 25 Oliver Reynolds, ‘& c’ 27 John E. Smelcer, three poems, translated from the Ahtna
Athabaskan language of Alaska by the author 30 Ho Chi Minh’s Prison Diary, translated from the Vietnamese by Timothy Allen 50 Sándor Márai, Unknown Chinese Poet, translated from the
Hungarian by John M. Ridland and Peter Czipott 62 Cesare Pavese, six poems, translated from the Italian by
Martin Bennett 69 Archilochus, Fragments, translated from the Ancient Greek by William Heath 72 Yorgos Soukoulis, ‘Rabies’, translated from the Arvanitika by
Peter Constantine 75 Konstantinos Sampanis, two poems, translated from the
Greek by Peter Constantine 79 Osip Mandelstam, ‘The Kremlin Mountain Man’, translated from the Russian by Andrew Mayne 82 Osip Mandelstam, poems from the Voronezh Notebooks,
translated from the Russian by Peter France 87 Osip Mandelstam, poems from the Moscow and the
Voronezh Notebooks, translated from the Russian by Alex Cigale 94 Vladimir Mayakovsky, ‘Verses about a Soviet passport’,
translated from the Russian by Stephen Capus 99 Larisa Miller and Boris Altshuler, interviewed by Sasha
Dugdale