Object FoundHungarian Gusztv Bger is a rare combination of poet and economist. As an economist he is among others an adviser to the Hungarian government, and its ministers. As a poet he is widely known and well appreciated in Hungary, while his international reputation is steadily growing with poetry books in German, in French and now in English. Although Bger is no tourist he is a frequent visitor in the capitals of the European Union, as a participant at

with a first delegation of UK publishers at the annual Cairo Book Fair

This issue of Modern Poetry in Translation is an anthology in celebration of variety

Macdara Woods is among the most trustworthy

Her poems and short stories have been published in Ireland

bears witness to the systematic persecution and extermination of the handicapped by Nazi Germany through the character of Viktor

In The Gospel of Us

One is Walter Benjamin’s Angel of History

stuck with a stack of bills

the well-known Iraqi author Jalil al-Qaisi is remembered by Fadhil al-Azzawi

trying to come to terms with the meaning of what Philip Larkin

Benny Waters and Britt Woodman

and the intricacies of tiny daily obsessive practices