PNR 261 September – October 2021

Gurdijieff © Greg O’Brien

Editorial 1 News & Notes 3 Pictures from a Library 81

Vahni Capildeo ‘Sound Sutra’ 5

Patrick McGuinness ‘Martyr’s Memorial’ 7

Jonathan Simons ‘Releasing the Spark’ 8

Sam Adams ‘Letter from Wales’ 9

Robyn Marsack ‘On Brian Johnstone’ 11

John Fuller ‘Winter Cadae’ 12

Colm Tóíbín ‘Thom Gunn Letters’ 15

Kit Hanafin ‘For Jaccottet’ 18

Jena Schmitt ‘The Fate of Wondering’ 23

Mariana Geide ‘Five Poems’ (translated by James Womack) 26

Brian Morton ‘Now… the trees’ 28

Jeffrey Wainwright ‘Parmenides on the Boardwalk’ 31

Anna Ivaskevic & Alex Wong ‘Three Poems after Sophia Parnock’ (translated with Alex Chernova) 32

Alice Hiller & Sasha Dugdale ‘Means and Ends’ 33

Sean O’Brien ‘Four Poems’ 37

David Herman ‘The Last Jewish Intellectual’ 38

Theodore Ell ‘Two Poems’ 42

Joshua Weiner ‘Three Poems’ 46

Iain Bamforth ’Nietzsche’s style guide’ 46

Jane King ‘Three Poems’ 49

Vona Groarke ‘The Passionate Transitory’ 50

David Wheatley ‘Two Poems’ 54

DUTCH SUPPLEMENT edited by P.C. Evans 55–69

Gwyneth Lewis on The Gododdin 70

Douglas Field on Kei Miller 72

Shash Trevett on Yousif M. Qasmiyeh 73

Bonnie Costello on Arthur Sze 74

Edmund Prestwhich on Boyle & Reid 75

Andrew McNeillie on Iain Crichton Smith 76

Iain Bamforth on Kirsty Gunn and Gail Low 77

Rory Waterman on Four Pamphlets 78