Intro; Contents; Publisher's Note; Foreword by Daniel Barenboim; Foreword by Mariam C. Said; Poems; The Poet; Adonis / Khaled Mattawa; Khaled Mattawa; Hafiz; Abbas Beydoun / Bill Manhire; Durs Grünbein / Matthew Sweeney; Love; Iman Mersal / Elaine Feinstein; Homero Aridjis / Kathleen Jamie; Reflections; Reza Mohammadi / Nick Laird; Antonella Anedda / Jamie McKendrick; Ill-Humour; Amjad Nasser / Fady Joudah; Don Paterson; Wisdom; Fatemeh Shams / Dick Davis; Gilles Ortlieb / Sean O'Brien; The Tyrant; Mourid Barghouti / George Szirtes; Jaan Kaplinski / Sasha Dugdale; Suleika

Nujoom Alghanem / Doireann Ní GhríofaRaoul Schrott / Paul Farley; The Cup-Bearer; Mohammed Bennis / Sinéad Morrissey; Aleš Šteger / Brian Henry; Parables; Gonca Özmen / Jo Shapcott; Angélica Freitas / Tara Bergin; Faith; Hafez Mousavi / Daisy Fried; Clara Janés / Lavinia Greenlaw; Paradise; Fadhil Al-Azzawi / Jorie Graham; Jan Wagner / Robin Robertson; Essays; Sibylle Wentker: Bringing Persia to Germany. Joseph von Hammer and Hafiz; Rajmohan Gandhi: Goethe and 'the East' of Today; Robyn Creswell: Playing a Part: Imru'al-Qays in English

Narguess Farzad: Hafiz and the Challenges of Translating Persian Poetry into EnglishStefan Weidner: The New Tasks of the Translator; Kadhim J. Hassan: On the Translation of European Poetry into Arabic Culture; Notes on the poems; Notes on the essays; Editors' Note; Acknowledgements; Biographical notes; Index of poets; Index of poems