Vol. 24 No. 16 · 22 August 2002
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Poem: ‘The Last Man to Speak Ubykh’
John Burnside
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Letters
Vol. 24 No. 18 · 19 September 2002
From Mark Valentine
The note to John Burnside's fine poem 'The Last Man to Speak Ubykh' (LRB, 22 August) names the linguist who found him but not the last speaker himself. There is no reason why he should be lost along with his language. Let us name him too: he was Tevfik Esenc.
Mark Valentine
Keighley, West Yorkshire
