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Michael Krüger was the director of Hanser Publishing until his retirement in 2013. He is the author of many books of poetry and prose. He lives in Munich. Joseph Given is a Berlin-based literary translator.

• I.My Desk in Allmanshausen    Not a Haiku    Postcard, May 2012   Three Winds, Pentecost    May    Near Münsing    Long Conversation    Crow-Eater    I Cannot Divine What it Meaneth    Wooden House    Happiness    Walk in the Woods    A Friend  Twilight    The Last Day of August    The Death of the Birch, 2011   Old Man under an Apple Tree    Nights on the Terrace    Photo Album    Memory from School    Class Reunion    Poem    Peripheral Symptoms of War    II.      In the Negev    Hotel Malibran, Venice    Hotel Near Erfurt    Message, 2012  Hotel Europa    Enlightenment    Flight to Istanbul    Harry Mulisch    Hotel Il Patriarca    Shame    After the Rain    Before the Storm    Street Scene in a Foreign City    Russian Cash    Four Lines for Lalla    Cinnamon    On Seagulls    Countryside Cafe    National Museum in Calcutta    India—Seven Postcards    Programme Poetry    The Hedgehog    How Poems Happen    Sleepless    Copyright  III.      Old Wooden House    A Poet    (Untitled)    In the Uckermark    Lentils in New York    Almost Nothing    Lost Time    Written from the Heart    Istanbul Revisited    Old Well    Diel    Walking, Slightly Moved    Czeslaw, Milosz    Translating    Outdated    What Still Has to be Done!    Antonio Tabucchi is Dead    Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin    Nicolas Born    Claude Simon    A Reminder    Whodunnit?    A Mirror    Tidying Up    In the Shed  IV.      Snow    New Year, 2012New Year    Winter    Wretched Apples in February    Snow Dreamer    Dreamings    Palm Sunday, 2012    Seedlings    Beach Cafe    Short Trip    Summerhouse at Easter    The Current State of Affairs, 2012   At the Lake    Near Boston, at the Sea    Expecting Rain    Autumn    At the Baltic Sea, Very Early    Chiusi, Terre di Siena    The Spider and I    The Blackbird    Early Sun in the South    Cutting Grass    End of the Summer    Reverie    Still Pool    Clearing  Notes