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I cannot come to you without a sleep,<\/strong><\/p>\n And travelling through sleep, I cannot know<\/strong><\/p>\n If through one firm continuum I go.<\/strong><\/p>\n Night is an involution which may keep<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Strange secrets, map our plane from sphere to sphere,<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0And though we travel post-stage, can we swear<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Nights in strange inns preserve invariant \u201cthere\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0And \u201cthither\u201d? One brief day embeds our \u201cnear\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0So, meeting, can we claim a mundane path<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Maps me to you in spatial translation?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Rise with the dawn – however swift we run,<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Time draws its radius around each hearth,<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0And hence we meet, sped by night\u2019s transformation<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Where children dream gold lands beyond the sun.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/p>\n Vera Rich(1936-2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n Educated at St Hilda\u2019s College, Oxford and at Bedford College, London, Vera Rich, a respected science journalist and a tireless campaigner for human rights, was a fine poet. Her wits were quick, her memory prodigious and she had a wonderful sense of humour.<\/strong><\/p>\n During the 1960\u2019s she had three books of her own poems published, and founded the poetry magazine, Manifold. This ran with some success for 28 issues before publication was suspended in 1968, when Vera became Eastern European correspondent for the science magazine, Nature. <\/strong><\/p>\n Once asked to translate some Ukrainian poems, she learned the language to do so. For the next three decades, she travelled extensively in eastern Europe, becoming the foremost translator of both Ukrainian and Belarusian poetry into English. She reported on the activities of dissident Soviet scientists, the Chernobyl disaster, psychiatric abuse and AIDS in the Soviet Union. Her anthology of Belarusian poetry, Like Water, Like Fire, published by UNESCO, was subsequently withdrawn under pressure from the Soviet Union. <\/strong><\/p>\n Manifold, which she revived in 1998, regularly published foreign-language poetry with parallel text in Engtlish and, occasionally. foreign poetry untranslated. In 2006 Vera travelled to the Ukraine to receive the Ivan Franko Award for her 40 years service to the translation of Ukrainian poetry. While on a visit to the Ivan Franko Homestead she gave an emotional reading of Shevchenko\u2019s poem \u201cTestament\u201d. On her next visit in 2007, she wore her medal, the Order of Princess Olha, which had been presented to her at the Ukrainian Embassy in London. Vera could fairly be described as a Ukrainian patriot, an unusual distinction for an Englishwoman. <\/strong><\/p>\n In 2006 Vera underwent treatment for breast cancer. But she always insisted her illness was an inconvenient obstacle to her work. On 18 December 2009, her doctor advised her to go into hospital, but even then Vera gave priority to her translations. On 20 December, 2009, she died peacefully in her bed. She will be greatly missed, not least for her kindness and the support she gave to so many. Alan Flowers (UK)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0***<\/strong><\/p>\n This sonnet and bibliography is pre-published with the permission of the Editor-in-chief from:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Richard Vallance, editor-in-chief. The Phoenix Rising from the Ashes: Anthology of sonnets of the early third millennium = Le Ph\u00e9nix renaissant de ses cendres : Anthologie de sonnets au d\u00e9but du troisi\u00e8me mill\u00e9naire. Friesen Presse, Victoria, B.C., Canada. \u00a9 2013. approx. 240 pp. ISBN Hardcover: 978-1-4602-1700-9 Price: $28.00 Paperback: 978-1-4602-1701-6 Price: $18.00 e-Book: 978-1-4602-1702-3 Price: TBA<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 300 sonnets & ghazals in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese & Persian.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 30 sonnets in this anthology are to be pre-published by our permission in Poetry Life & Times (UK) which has exclusive sole rights prior to the publication of the anthology itself. Readers may also contact Richard Vallance, Editor-in-Chief, at: vallance22@gmx.com for further information.<\/span>http:\/\/vallance22.hpage.com\/<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n