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Editor's welcome

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Contents

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*Maja Haderlap: Angel of Oblivion (excerpt) & poems

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Angel of Oblivion (excerpt)

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Ljubljanica river of memory

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transit

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night woman

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*Aleš Šteger: Seven poems

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I've scattered my body

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Of all the healers

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The closer the deadline

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Here is just one of the entrances

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Above the red button it says

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Nothing remarkable

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With a cheek

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*Goran Vojnović: Yugoslavia, My Fatherland (excerpt)

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*Tone Škrjanec: ten poems

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Sunday is the Day When I don’t Make It to the Phone

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Little Suffering Sun

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A Night in the Night

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New Times

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rahat lokum

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a pile of past traces entering the present

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Buy a Soft Shirt

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pastorale: poem for an avenue of fallen trees

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Global Heart

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*Barbara Pogačnik: six poems

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Submerged Grape

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Pumpkins Lying in the Field

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Landscape with Jellyfish

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A Lamb at Night, a Lamb at Morn

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Rain Above the Olive Trees (excerpt)

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Indefinite Time of Life

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Gøhril Gabrielsen: The Looking-Glass Sisters (excerpt)

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Tomas Tranströmer: Bright Scythe (seven poems)

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Fire Scribbles

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The Nightingale in Bedelunda

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Nightbook Page

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The Light Streams In

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From the Island, 1860

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Silence

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Facades

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Aylin Graves: Seven Tales of Loss from Turkey

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1. Talking with Eternity

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2. The Water-Gazer

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3. The Death of a Miner

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4. The Day We Started to Burn

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5. Dr V

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6. The Crossover

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7. A Fair Wind, A Following Sea

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Gábor Schein: six poems

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To take a Russian leave

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The colour of pain

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In the trenches

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Come back

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Short of breath

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With Eyes Turned Inside Out

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Samira Kentrić: a note about the artwork

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Acknowledgments

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*Goran Vojnović: Yugoslavia, My Fatherland (excerpt)

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