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A wide international selection of poets this month - from South America: a Colombian living in the US, an Ecuadoran and two from Chile including the great Neruda. Two each from Canada, Italy, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Poland, Jamaica, Israel and the Czech Republic are all represented, along with the customary sprinkling of American and English voices.

We commemorate the 7th anniversary of 9/11 as well as mourning the passing of summer ... hoping for an Indian one.

Last month saw the death of the poet known as the voice of the Palestinian people, Mahmoud Darwish. We'll revisit his work next month.

Enjoy ...

September

1	Gwendolyn MacEwen	Canadian	Death of the Loch Ness Monster Dark Pines Under Water
2	Laura Riding	American	The Simple Line
3	Louis MacNeice	N Irish	Trilogy for X Round the Corner
4	Eileen Carney Hulme Henry van Dyke Stanley Kunitz	Scottish American American	Indian Summer Indian Summer End of Summer
5	Nicanor Parra	Chilean	The Viper
8	Elinor Wylie Siegfried Sassoon	American English	Full Moon The Imperfect Lover
9	Siegfried Sassoon Cesare Pavese	English Italian	The Dream Nocturne
10	Mary Oliver	American	When Death Comes After Her Death
11	Waslawa Szymborska Alicia Vasquez	Polish Colombian	Photograph from September 11^th Don’t Look for Me Anymore
12	Michael Ondaatje Louis MacNeice Eugenio Montale	Canadian N Irish Italian	Bearhug When We Were Children At the Threshold
15	Claude McKay Vladimir Holan	Jamaican Czech	Romance Meeting in a Lift Resurrection
16	T E Hulme Michael Donaghy	English American/Irish	The Embankment Letter
17	William Carlos Williams	American	To a Friend Concerning Several Ladies A Sort of a Song
18	Michael Hartnett Jose Carrera Andrade	N Irish Ecuadoran	The Poet as Black Sheep Death of an Irishwoman The Window
19	Stevie Smith	English	Alone in the Woods Infelice I Do Not Speak
22	Dannie Abse Yehuda Amichai	Welsh Israeli	Last Words I Want to Die in my Own Bed
23	Andrew Greig	Scottish	A Pre-Breakfast Rant Orkney, This Life
24	Pablo Neruda	Chilean	Clenched Soul Sonnet 25 Sonnet 17
25	R S Thomas	Welsh	Sonata and other poems
26	Anne Rouse T S Eliot	English American/English	Telegraph Pole The Love-song of J Alfred Prufrock 1
29	T S Eliot	American/English	The Love-song of J Alfred Prufrock 2
30	W S Merwin	American	Émigré Through a Glass

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