Selected Contributors:

Hans Magnus Enzensberger is Germany’s most distinguished living poet, but also a political and social essayist and best-selling children’s author. He lives in Munich.

Catherine Grøndahl is one of Norway’s new generation of Nineties poets. The poem in this issue is from Crushed Between Night and Day (1996).

Michael Hamburger’s Collected Poems were reissued in paperback by Anvil in 1998. Since then he has published a pamphlet, Mr. Littlejoy’s Rattlebag for the New Millennium (Katabasis), and a long interview (with Peter Dale: Between the Lines). A new collection is due from Anvil next year.

Gunnar Harding is one of Sweden’s foremost poets, with nineteen volumes in a publishing life spanning more than thirty years. The poem in this issue is from his recent work, The Big Stage (1995).

Pentti Holappa has published sixteen collections of poetry and nine novels. His novel Muotokuva won Finland’s premier literary award, the Finlandia Prize, in 1999. A Tenant Here, translated by Herbert Lomas, will be published shortly by Dedalus Press in Dublin.

Brigitte Oleschinski was born in Cologne in 1955 and now lives in Berlin. The second of her published collections, Your Passport is not Guilty (1997), won the prestigious Peter Huchel Prize.

Ruth Padel won the 1996 National Poetry Competition. Of her four collections, Angel was a PBS recommendation and Rembrandt Would Have Loved You was a PBS choice and shortlisted for the 1998 T.S. Eliot Prize. She reviews widely in the UK and for The New York Times, and has a ‘Sunday Poem’ column in the Independent on Sunday.

Cesare Pavese was born in Santo Stefano Belbo (Piedmont) in 1908. Educated in Turin, he joined the publishing firm of Einaudi, for which he translated Joyce, Stein and Faulkner, among others. Arrested for anti-fascist activities in 1935, he served a term in prison in Calabria. His major collection of poetry, Lavorare Stanca, from which the poems in this issue are taken, was published after his release in 1936. His prose masterpiece, The Moon and the Bonfire was published in 1950, and in the same year he committed suicide. The poems in this issue of Stand are from Lavorare stanca© 1943 Guilio Einaudi Editore, Turin.

Stephen Romer’s most recent collection, Tribute (1998), is reviewed in this issue. He lives in France.

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