Introduction
1. Svendborg 1938 David Midgley
2. The usefulness of poetry David Constantine
3. 'Visit to a banished poet': Brecht's Svendborg Poems and the voices of exile Tom Kuhn
4. Exile in 'Danish Siberia': the Soviet Union in the Svendborg Poems Katharine Hodgson
5. Strength and clarity: Brecht, Auden and the 'true Democratic style' Tony Davies
6. Satire as propaganda: Brecht's 'Deutsche Satieren' for Deutscher Freiheitssender Michael Minden
7. The fourth door: difficulties with the truth in the Svendborg Poems Joyce Crick
8. The uses of rhetoric in Brecht's Svendborg Poems Anna Carrdus
9. Assuaging the anxiety of influence: poetic authority and power in the Svendborg Poems Elizabeth Boa
10. Figures of memory in the 'Chroniken' Anthony Phelan
11. The poet in time Ronald Speirs
12. Those born later than Brecht: the reception of 'An die Nachgeborenen' Karen Leeder
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