The National Gallery's exhibition "Encounters" stimulated Dannie Abseto gather here 9 literary encounters with foreign poems he has admired.He has departed, sometimes more, sometimes less, from originals by,among others, Mayakovsky, Brecht, Pushkin, Seifert and Amir Gilboa topresent new poems that are vivid and successful in English. Printed byletterpress in a limited edition of 500 copies by Peter Lloyd, Rugby.