Six Catalan Poets

Anna Crowe, born in Plymouth in 1945, is a poet and translator and the author of four poetry collections in English: Figure in a Landscape (2010), a Poetry Book Society Choice which was translated into Catalan and published in a bilingual edition as Paisatge amb figura (Ensiola, 2011) and which also received the Callum MacDonald Memorial Award in 2011; Skating Out of the House (1997), A Secret History of Rhubarb (2006), Punk with Dulcimer (2006); one in Spanish / English bilingual edition: L’ànima del teixidor (2000); and one in Catalan: Punk con salterio, translated by Joan Margarit (2008). She has translated three of Joan Margarit’s collections: Tugs in the Fog (Bloodaxe, 2006, a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation); Barcelona, amor final (2007, Catalan / Castilian / English trilingual edition); Strangely Happy (Bloodaxe, 2011). She has also translated Anna Aguilar-Amat’s Música i escorbut (Blesok, 2006); with Iolanda Pelegrí, an anthology of Catalan poetry, Miralls d’aigua (Light Off Water, Scottish Poetry Library / Carcanet Press, 2006); and, for Arc Publications Six Catalan Poets edited by Pere Ballart (2013), and Peatlands by the Mexican poet Pedro Serrano (2014). Along with several other writers, she was a founder member of StAnza, the Scottish international poetry festival, and was artistic director during its first seven years. She has twice won the Peterloo Open Poetry competition, and in 2005 won a travelling scholarship from the Society of Authors.

• Series editor's preface / 9, Introduction / 11, CARLES TORNER, Biography / 27, "Let us think death into the centre of life - " / 29, The Child / 31, The Plundering Angel / 29, Just Before the Fire / 31, Circus / 31, Objects / 33, Device / 35, The Red Van / 37, Abraham's Gesture / 39, Untranslating Europe / 41, GEMMA GORGA, Biography / 55, Going Back / 57, Horoscope / 57, The Aged Penelope Speaks / 59, Stones / 61, Joyeux Noel / 63, Rest / 65, We Forgot / 65, Phosphorus / 67, Little Story / 67, Landing / 69, Amusement Park / 69, The Sky Above Berlin / 71, Long Journey / 73, Distance / 73, A Woman / 75, Pomegranate / 75, Book of Minutes (extracts) / 77, MANUEL FORCANO, Biography / 83, "As dusk gathers and deepens - " / 85, "In bed, when the light is gone - " / 85, "My love is - " / 85, "It is always night - " / 85 , Ephraim's Wood / 87, Trompe L'Oeil / 87, Late / 87, At Night / 89, At the Archaeological Museum in Damascus / 89, Trebizond / 89, Exile / 91, Pindar's House / 91, The Roses of Isfahan / 93, Poetica / 93, Assault / 95, Ombra mai fu / 95, At the Cafe Sahel in Aleppo / 97, At Last / 105, Law Governing Aliens / 105, Walking Through The Call / 107, JOSE LLUIS AGUILO Biography / 111, Songs of the Tiller, XII / 113, The Secret Library / 113, The Devil's Bridges / 115, Parallelisms / 115, The Season of Shadows / 119, Words / 121, Lucifer / 121, The Attic / 123, Minotaur / 125, The Flying Dutchman / 125, I Have Lost a Few Lines / 127, Tumbleweed / 129, Reader / 131, The Contract / 133, ELIES BARBERA Biography / 137, Unlucky Mickey Mouse / 139, Autumn Leaves / 141, The Coward's Hymn / 141, Oratory / 145, Ashes to Ashes / 147, Earliest Smell / 147, 20 Nov 75, Day Of Ponds / 149, Emeralds / 149, Archaeologist / 153, Sister Anorexia / 153, Industrial Estate / 157, JORDI JULIA Biography / 163, Glances / 165, Toffee / 165, Saturday Men / 167, The Forbidden City / 169, Bad Readers / 171, Through Jungles and Deserts / 173, The Pleasure Principle / 175, Tortoises / 175, Children's Song / 177, Deep in the Flesh / 179, Looking for Roots / 181, Older Cousins / 183, The Hidden Bird / 183, When You Are Sad / 185