Poems Translations Edited Poems in Anthologies Poems in Magazines Translations in Anthologies and Magazines Essays and Interviews Poems Click here for a selection of poems from the publications below. The Road North http://www.theroadnorth.co.uk http://the-road-north.blogspot.com “The Road North is a word-map of Scotland, composed by Alec Finlay & Ken Cockburn as they travel through their homeland, guided by the Japanese poet Basho, whose Oku-no-Hosomichi (Narrow Road to the Deep North) is one of the masterpieces of travel literature. Ken and Alec left Edo (Edinburgh) on May 16, 2010 – the very same date that Basho and his companion Sora departed in 1689 – and when they return, on May 16, 2011, they will publish 53 collaborative audio & visual poems describing the landscapes they have seen and people they have met. For now, you can follow their progress week by week, and read about some of the places that Basho leads them to.” Reading the Streets (duende, 2010) Poems by Ken Cockburn Illustrated by Libby Walker http://www.duende.org.uk/publications.asp CENTUM: One Hundred Years of Baillie Gifford 1908-2008 (Fremi Books, 2008) ISBN 978-0-9558946-0-2 Timeline and poems for an artist book designed and illustrated by David Faithfull and published by Grazyna Fremi www.fremiart.com (click on 'Corporate') On the Fly Leaf (Luath, 2007) Poems by Ken Cockburn www.luath.co.uk ISBN 1-906307-18-0 Inspired by inscriptions, graffiti and scribbled notes on the fly leaves of books – Ovid, a guide book, a superhero comic – these poems interweave travel, home and love, while quietly subverting notions of standing and rank in literature. http://archiv.literadio.org/get.php/766pr745 http://archiv.literadio.org/get.php/766pr726 Recordings of two poems from the sequence 'On the flyleaf', made at the Ars Poetica festival in Bratislava, 2006 Parse and Elaborate Artist book in an edition of six, made by Eleanor Symms, 2000, with text by Ken Cockburn; exhibited at The Fruitmarket Gallery (Edinburgh), StAnza Poetry Festival (Fife), Glasgow School of Art, Parsons School of Design (New York) Full text available at http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=3850 Souvenirs and Homelands (Scottish Cultural Press, 1998) Poems by Ken Cockburn ISBN 1 898218 93 5 Shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award 1998 The Odyssey Book (Instant Republic, 1998) Text by Ken Cockburn, with Alice Cockburn. An artist book featuring a child's retelling of tales from The Odyssey Orpheus (Red Sharks Press, 1988) Translations Feathers & Lime: translations from the German (The Caseroom Press, 2007) Ken Cockburn ISBN 978-1-905821-03-7 Feathers and Lime features work by Thomas Brasch, Rudolf Bussmann, Christine Marendon, Arne Rautenberg and Tina Stroheker. Other than Brasch, this is the first time work by these poets has appeared in English in book form. The book was shortlisted in the Literature category for the British Book Design and Production Awards 2007. http://www.the-case.co.uk/Feathers%26Lime.html http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/bookreviews/Chapter-and-verse.3588418.jp http://www.britishbookawards.org/2007/shortlist.html The Season Sweetens / Die Saison Versüssend: Football Haiku 2006 (The Caseroom Press, 2006) Edited by Ken Cockburn ISBN 1-905821-00-X 23 'football haiku' (three-word poems) in English with German translations and 23 football haiku in German with English translations. The haiku are by various authors, including Alec Finlay, Ken Edwards, Alexander Braun, Ulrike Draesner, translated by Arne Rautenberg (English-German) and Ken Cockburn (German-English). The cover photographs are by Julian Germain. http://www.the-case.co.uk/The_Season_Sweetens.html http://www.spl.org.uk/translation-feature/0606_braun.html Edited wide waves small circle: poems by schoolchildren on Lewis and Harris written in response to the exhibition Ian Hamilton Finlay: Sailing Dinghy (An Lanntair, 2011) Edited by Ken Cockburn, photographs by Jon MacLeod ISBN 978-09525389-2-7 I Took That Chance: new writing by Aberdeenshire Literacies Partnership adult learners (Aberdeenshire Council, 2008) Edited by Ken Cockburn ISBN 978-1-901275-20-9 RAVENSCRAIG: a collection of, a guide to writing, and a notebook for Mesostic Poems, forming part of the Dysart Artworks project (Fife Council, 2006) Edited by Ken Cockburn ISBN 1-869984-17-X Write On!: new writing and visual art by young people in Aberdeenshire (Aberdeen: Aberdeenshire Council, 2006) Edited by Ken Cockburn ISBN 978-190127517-9 Paintings and drawings in colour and black-and-white, three-line poems and six-page stories about land and sea, town and country, sunshine and snowstorms, joy and despair, life and death... this anthology from Aberdeenshire schools considers what it's like to live in North-east Scotland now, as well as in the past and (perhaps) in the future too! Tweed Rivers: new writing and visual art inspired by the rivers of the Tweed catchment (platform projects & Luath Press, 2005) ISBN 1-905222-25-4 Edited by Ken Cockburn and James Carter www.luath.co.uk "A a rich, imaginative publication" Michael Lister, textualities, at http://textualities.net/writers/poetry-reviews/listerm21.php Poet Prints: 24 new portraits of Scottish writers (Scottish Poetry Library, 2005) Edited by Ken Cockburn and Colin Cavers Intimate Expanses: XXV Scottish Poems 1978-2002 (Carcanet, 2004) ISBN 1-85754-795-0 Edited by Ken Cockburn and Robyn Marsack www.carcanet.co.uk The Dancers Inherit the Party: Early stories, plays & poems by Ian Hamilton Finlay (Polygon, 2004) Edited by Ken Cockburn ISBN 9781904598138 This fully revised and updated edition of the 1996 Polygon selection of his work is expanded to set Finlay's earlier poetry in the context of his fiction, short plays, and later uncollected poems. http://polygon.birlinn.co.uk/ www.nls.uk/media/22689/folio10.pdf Reviewed by Marjorie Perloff in the Times Literary Supplement, April 29, 2005, p. 26, “Dreams of Weeds” – see http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/perloff/articles/finlay.pdf The Order of Things: an anthology of Scottish sound, pattern and concrete poems (pocketbooks, 2001) Edited, with Alec Finlay Edited by Ken Cockburn and Alec Finlay ISBN 9780748662906 Includes Renaissance pattern poems, catalogue poems and contemporary concrete, sound and visual poems, as well as a mini-CD of poems. http://www.birlinn.co.uk http://www.oysterboyreview.com/issue/17/PreeceD-CockburnFinlay.html The Jewel Box: Contemporary Scottish Poems (Scottish Poetry Library, 2000) Audio-CD Edited by Ken Cockburn and Alec Finlay Brilliant Cacophony: connecting the contemporary of art and architecture on Edinburgh's Royal Mile (Scottish Sculpture Trust, 1998) Edited by Ken Cockburn and Lise Bratton Poems in Anthologies Mesostic Interleaved: reading through books, writing through names ed. Alec Finlay (Edinburgh University Library/Morning Star, 2009) Writing on the Wall: an international writing project for Hadrian's Wall 2001-2006, ed. Steve Chettle (Arts UK, 2006) The Thing That Mattered Most: Scottish Poems for Children (Scottish Poetry Library, 2006) Ars Poetica 2006, ed. Lubica Somolayova (Ars Poetica, 2006) http://www.spl.org.uk/holyrood-link_2005/cockburn.html A poem about the late Gael Turnbull (1928-2004), commissioned by Mike Pringle MSP as part of the Scottish Poetry Library's Holyrood Link project. Mesostic Herbarium, ed. Alec Finlay (platform projects, 2005) Haiku for Lovers, ed. Manu Bazzano (MQP, 2003) Dream State (2nd edition), ed. Donny O'Rourke (Polygon, 2002) Such Strange Joy: Ten Years of Shore Poets, ed. by Allan Crosbie (iynx, 2001) Love for Love, ed. John Burnside & Alec Finlay (pocketbooks, 2000) After the Watergaw, ed. Robert Davidson (Scottish Cultural Press, 1998) A Gathering for Gael Turnbull, ed. Peter McCarey (Vennell Press, 1998) Present Poets I & II, ed. Jenni Calder (NMS, 1997/1999) Poems in magazines including Bête Noire, Blithe Spirit, Cencrastus, Chapman, Les Citadelles (France), Die Horen (Germany), Island, Lines Review, Markings, New Writing Scotland, Northwords, Painted Spoken, Poetry News, Poetry Scotland, Parnasszus (Hungary), Presence, Radical Wales, The Reader, The Red Wheelbarrow, Scottish Book Collector, Sou' Wester (USA), vlna (Slovakia), ZED20 Translations in Anthologies and Magazines Poems by Thomas Rosenlöcher in Poetry Review, vol.100 no.3, 2010, Fras, no.11, 2009, and Modern Poetry in Translation, 3/11, 2009 Poems by Thomas Brasch in PN Review, no.197, 2011, and Modern Poetry in Translation, 3/6, 2006 Poems by Adel Karasholi in Banipal, no. 32, 2008 Poems by Arne Rautenberg on the website www.no-mans-land.org (issues # 2 & 3) (2007/2008) http://www.arnerautenberg.de/Text/Uebersetzungen/Meine_Gedichte_in_anderen_Sprachen More translations of Arne's poems. Poems by h.c. artmann, Andreas Okopenko, Reinhard Preissnitz, Peter Rosei and Robert Schindel in The night begins with a question: XXV Austrian Poems 1978-2002 (Carcanet / Scottish Poetry Library, 2007) Poems by Christine Marendon in Days of Poetry and Wine (Medana, Slovenia, 2006) Poems by Theodor Fontane and Georg Britting for posters for schools (Goethe Institut Glasgow / Scottish Poetry Library, 2005) Poems by Arne Rautenberg and René Schoemakers in Football Haiku (pocketbooks, 2002) Poem by Paul Celan in Irish (2) (Morning Star Publications, 2002) Poems by Rudolf Bussmann and Ernst Ramseier in Fife Lines (2001) Goethe, selections from 'Venetian Epigrams' published in ZED20, Modern Poetry in Translation, Chapman, 1999-2001, and as a ‘web-book’ at http://www.brindin.com/vc42cove.htm, 2007 http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=12584 A smaller selection of the Goethe translations. Essays and Interviews 'Journal of a Visit to the Leipzig Book Fair, March 2009' http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/gla/en4764971.htm 'On the flyleaf of Goethe's Venetian Epigrams: Three Drafts and a Reflection' in Poem Revised: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Writing Poetry, ed. Robert Hartwell Fiske and Laury Cherry (Marion Street Press, 2008) 'The Artist Books of Ian Hamilton Finlay' in The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Vol. 4, Professionalism and Diversity 1880-2000, ed. David Finkelstein and Alistair McLeery (EUP, 2007) 'A letter to Byron', in Discover NLS, no.4 (2007) www.nls.uk/about/discover-nls/back_issues.html '"A remix of a familiar song": a selection of modern and contemporary poems from Scotland' An introduction to poems by various Scottish poets including Meg Bateman, Carol-Ann Duffy, Peter McCarey and Edwin Morgan. Translated into German by Arne Rautenberg in Die Horen, no. 228 (2007) www.die-horen.de/228023.pdf 'Dancing Visions: Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Early Writing' Folio, 2005 (National Library of Scotland) www.nls.uk/media/22689/folio10.pdf 'Poets’ Pub' An extended essay on 20th century Scottish poetry for the Scottish Poetry Library website, considering a collection by each of the eight poets featured in the painting 'Poet's Pub': Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan, Robert Garioch, George Mackay Brown, Iain Crichton Smith (2002) published on line at www.spl.org.uk/poets_pub/index.html 'Flitting' An article on personal favourite books, Scottish Book Collector, vol. 6 no. 12 (2001) http://textualities.net/collecting/collections/cockburnk01.php ‘Jolted... out of whatever course’ An interview with Gael Turnbull, Edinburgh Review, no. 97 (1996) 'Towards this particular place' extended review of Tom Leonard’s Places of the Mind: The Life and Work of James Thomson (‘B.V.’), Verse, vol. 11 no. 1 (1994) Book reviews for magazines including Lines Review, Chapman, Scottish Literary Studies, MAP, Haiku Scotland, 1991-2008