Modern Poetry In Translation: 12 books

‘The Constellation’ is the special ‘Poetry International Festival’ issue of Modern Poetry in Translation. The magazine focusses on the powerful and moving exchange of poems and letters between Bertolt Brecht and his lover and collaborator Margarete Steffin as they went through exile, war and...

MPT’s winter issue 'The Blue Vein' focuses on a new wave of Korean poetry, with a selection of new translations of Korea’s foremost poets Kim Hyesoon and Ko Un, poems by Han Kang who won last year’s Man Booker International Prize for her novel The Vegetarian and an interview with Kim Hyesoon...

MPT's autumn issue ‘Secret Agents of Sense’ focuses on Polish poetry, with a selection of new translations of of Krystyna Miłobędzka, Marcin Świetlicki, Justyna Bargielska and ŁukaszJarosz and a survey of poetry in Poland in this century: poet Bonowicz discusses the effects of the end of censorship...

One Thousand Suns' features poetry from African languages including new translations of Alfred Schaffer, Mama Seck Mbacké, Ricaredo Silebo Boturu and Agnès Agboton; and an essay on translation by Inua Ellams. Also new translations of Hafez by Mario Petrucci; a poetic response to ‘Awater’ by Jane Draycott and poems by Hindi poet and novelist Geet Chaturvedi

MPT’s Spring 2016 issue ’The Great Flight’ features a focus on refugee poetry – poetry by refugees and about the plight of refugees and migrants - with new translations of Ribka Sibhatu, Hama Tuma, Golan Haji and Amarjit Chandan, plus prose by Nasrin Parvaz and Don Mee Choi. Also in this issue:...

‘The Tangled Route’ features a focus on new and classic Uruguayan poetry: new translations of Líber Falco, Horacio Cavallo and Ida Vitale, plus a conversation between two women poets from Uruguay: Laura Chalar and Laura Cesarco Eglin discuss exile, identity and literature. Also in this issue:...

‘The Singing of the Scythe’ focusses on poetry of the First World War, featuring the poetry we guarantee you won’t have come across in this centenary year: concrete poems about the occupied city of Antwerp by Paul van Ostaijen, Punjabi folksongs composed by the women who were left behind when...

MPT’s Spring issue ‘Scorched Glass’ focuses on Iranian poetry, with a selection of new translations of poets including Forugh Farrokhzad, Nima Yushij and London Iranian writer, Ziba Karbassi. The featured translations have been the results of collaborations between UK-based poets, including...

This issue of MPT focusses on bold and experimental poetry from Brazil, work by contemporary poets such as Angélica Freitas and Nicolas Behr and new translations of the preeminent Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. We also feature the poetry of Italian filmmaker Pier Paulo Pasolini, Tsvetaeva and South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon.

MPT's summer Issue Between Clay and Star features a focus on new Romanian poetry: new translations of Liliana Ursu, Dan Sociu, Ana Blandiana and Gellu Naum, and a conversation between Dan Sociu and the younger poet Oana Sanziana Marian about contemporary Romanian poetry and Dan's own views about writing....

MPT's Spring Issue Strange Tracks features a focus on new Dutch poetry: new work by Toon Tellegen, Ester Naomi Perquin and Menno Wigman and an interview with Tellegen about his prizewinning collection Raptors. Poems by Zhang Zao, Valerie Rouzeau, versions of riddles and poems from The Exeter Book and more make up the first issue of the new look MPT

MPT’s summer 2015 issue ‘I WISH’ features a focus on world poetry for children: new translations of poems from Russia, Taiwan, Mexico and Eritrea and more, and some classic poems from Poland by Julian Tuwim. The focus also includes a discussion between former children’s laureate Michael Rosen...