The Bosnia Poem: Bosnian

Tuesday 20 July 1993 23:02 BST

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For copyright reasons we are not able to provide the full text of the poem on this database. Following are the details of the publication in which it appears.

Peter Reading was born in Liverpool in 1946 and now lives in Shropshire. Since 1971, he has published 12 volumes of verse. His early collections, published by Secker & Warburg, include Diplopic (1983), C (1984) and Ukulele Music (1986), which are republished in 3 in 1 (Chatto). A new collection will be published by Chatto & Windus in February. Among his many prizes, he has been awarded the Cholmondeley Award, Dylan Thomas Award and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry.

Yesterday's poem, 'Black Dogs' by Stevan Tontic, was translated by Mary Radosavljevic.

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