Poetry Salzburg Review is an English language, biannual literary magazine

Literary magazine

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...

 published by Poetry Salzburg at the University of Salzburg

University of Salzburg

The University of Salzburg, or Paris Lodron University after its founder, the Prince Archbishop Paris Lodron, is located in the Austrian city of Salzburg, Salzburgerland, home of Mozart. It is divided into 4 faculties: catholic theology, law, humanities and natural science.Founded in 1622, it...

 and edited by Wolfgang Görtschacher and Andreas Schachermayr. It is a successor to The Poet's Voice which was edited and published in Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 by British poets Fred Beake, James Hogg

James Hogg

James Hogg was a Scottish poet and novelist who wrote in both Scots and English.-Early life:James Hogg was born in a small farm near Ettrick, Scotland in 1770 and was baptized there on 9 December, his actual date of birth having never been recorded...

 and Görtschacher. Since its creation in 2001

2001 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Immediately after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, W. H...

, the journal aims to present a diverse range of contemporary poetry along with premiere translations into English, interviews with prominent and emerging poets and translators, poetry book reviews and general essays on poetry. As of 2010 the editorial board consists of William Bedford

William Bedford

William Bedford is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Phoenix Suns in the 1st round of the 1986 NBA Draft after playing at Memphis State University...

, Robert Dassanowsky, David Miller

David Miller (poet)

David Miller is a writer, poet, literary critic, and editor. He has lived in London since 1972.He has published over fifty books and pamphlets. His first books were The Caryatids and South London Mix , both published in 1975...

, and Ally Acker. In addition to its translations, it is one of the very few poetry publications that features accomplished international English language poets from beyond the English language world (i.e. writers from Austria, Bosnia, Switzerland, Croatia, Greece, Pakistan, Hungary, Germany, Singapore, Finland, Poland, Serbia, Ukraine, and Italy among others). The Poetry Salzburg press imprint publishes poetry books and collections in English. As of the Summer 2004 issue, PSR features new surrealistic, abstract and fantastic realist cover art by upcoming international artists including Sarah Bernal-Rutter, Leslie Buchanan, David Brooks, Helga Gasser, Paulo Cavalcante, Daniel Y. Harris, Jeanie Tomanek, Siegfried Zademack, Roland H. Heyder, Klaus Wiemann, Otto Rapp, Michael Cheval, Martin-Georg Oscity.

Past contributors

Louis Armand

Louis Armand

For the writer and critical theorist, see Louis Armand Louis Armand was a French engineer who managed several public companies and had a significant role during World War II as an officer in the Resistance...

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Michael Armstrong

Michael Armstrong

Michael Armstrong may refer to:*C. Michael Armstrong , former chairman of AT&T*Michael Gomez , Manchester-Irish boxer who was born Michael Armstrong*Michael Armstrong , writer on human resources issues...

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David Banks

David Banks

David Banks is a British actor.As a theatre actor he has played many leading roles in London and throughout the UK...

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William Bedford

William Bedford

William Bedford is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Phoenix Suns in the 1st round of the 1986 NBA Draft after playing at Memphis State University...

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Anne Blonstein

Anne Blonstein

Anne Blonstein was a British poet and translator, long-resident in Basel, Switzerland, where she worked as a freelance translator and editor....

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Robert Dassanowsky,
Ingrid de Kok

Ingrid de Kok

- Biography :Ingrid de Kok grew up in Stilfontein, a gold mining town in what was then the Western Transvaal. When she was 12 years old, her parents moved to Johannesburg. In 1977 she emigrated to Canada where she lived until returning to South Africa in 1984. She has one child, a son...

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Raymond Federman

Raymond Federman

Raymond Federman was a French–American novelist and academic, known also for poetry, essays, translations, and criticism. He held positions at the University at Buffalo from 1973 to 1999, when he was appointed Distinguished Emeritus Professor. Federman was a writer in the experimental style, one...

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Paul Green

Paul Green

Paul Eliot Green was an American playwright best known for his depictions of life in North Carolina during the first decades of the twentieth century...

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Michael Heller

Michael Heller (poet)

Michael Heller , is an American poet, essayist and critic. Among his many books are Exigent Futures, In The Builded Place, Wordflow and Living Root: A Memoir. He wrote the libretto for the opera, Benjamin, based on the life of Walter Benjamin...

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Fanny Howe

Fanny Howe

Fanny Howe is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She has written many novels in prose collection. Howe was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, presented annually by the Poetry Foundation to a living U.S...

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Helen Ivory

Helen Ivory

Helen Ivory is an English poet, tutor and editor.She was born in Luton but has lived in Norwich since 1990. In 1999 she won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors....

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James Kirkup

James Kirkup

James Falconer Kirkup, FRSL was a prolific English poet, translator and travel writer. He was brought up in South Shields, and educated at South Shields Secondary School and Durham University. He wrote over 30 books, including autobiographies, novels and plays...

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Edward Lowbury

Edward Lowbury

Edward Joseph Lister Lowbury was a pioneering and innovative English medical bacteriologist and pathologist, and also a published poet.-Life:...

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Paula Meehan

Paula Meehan

Paula Meehan is an Irish poet and playwright. Born in Dublin in 1955, Meehan studied at Trinity College, Dublin,and at Eastern Washington University.-Biography:...

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Samuel Menashe

Samuel Menashe

Samuel Menashe was an American poet. Born in New York City as Samuel Menashe Weisberg, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Menashe grew up in Elmhurst, Queens, and graduated from Townsend Harris High School and Queens College. During World War II he served in the US Army infantry, and in...

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Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 - 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities and...

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Henrik Nordbrandt

Henrik Nordbrandt

Henrik Nordbrandt is a Danish poet, novelist and essayist. He made his literary debut in 1966 with the poetry collection Digte. He was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2000 for the poetry collection' Drømmebroer...

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Bernard O'Donoghue

Bernard O'Donoghue

Bernard O'Donoghue is a noted contemporary Irish poet and academic.Born in Cullen, County Cork, Ireland, he moved to Manchester, England when he was 16, where he attended St Bede's College. He has lived in Oxford, England since 1965...

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Maggie O'Sullivan

Maggie O'Sullivan

Maggie O'Sullivan is a British poet, performer and visual artist associated with the British Poetry Revival.O'Sullivan was born in Lincoln, England of Irish immigrant parents. She moved to London in 1971 and worked for the BBC until 1988. Her early work appeared in magazines such as Angel Exhaust...

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Andrew Oldham,
Marjorie Perloff

Marjorie Perloff

Marjorie Perloff is an Austrian-born U.S. poetry critic.Perloff was born Gabriele Mintz into a secularized Jewish family in Vienna. Faced with Nazi terror, her family emigrated in 1938 when she was six-and-a-half, going first to Zürich and then to the United States, settling in Riverdale, New York...

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Simon Perchik

Simon Perchik

Simon Perchik is an American poet with published work dating from the 1960s. Perchik worked as an attorney before his retirement in 1980. Educated at New York University, Perchik now resides in East Hampton, New York. Library Journal has referred to Perchik as "the most widely published unknown...

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Pascale Petit

Pascale Petit

Pascale Petit is a poet. She grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and was a visual artist for the first part of her life...

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Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known American poet, translator and anthologist who is noted for his work in ethnopoetics and poetry performance.-Early life and work:...

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Susanna Roxman

Susanna Roxman

Susanna Roxman Susanna Roxman is an Anglophone writer, poet and critic born in Stockholm; her father’s family is Scottish. She was considered a gifted child. Her first few books were written in Swedish, but she switched over to English as her professional language...

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Nicholas Samaras,
Toon Tellegen

Toon Tellegen

Antonius Otto Hermannus Tellegen is a Dutch writer, poet, and physician, known for his children's works, especially those involving anthropomorphised ants and squirrels...

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Keith Waldrop

Keith Waldrop

Keith Waldrop is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, and has translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others. A recent translation is Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal .With his wife Rosmarie Waldrop, he co-edits Burning Deck Press...

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Rosemarie Waldrop,
Liliane Wouters

Liliane Wouters

Liliane Wouters is a Belgian poet, playwright, translator, anthologist, and essayist.-Life:She was born in Ixelles and taught school from 1949 to 1990.She met Albert Andrew Lheureux and his Théâtre de l'Esprit Frappeur ....

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