Modern Poetry in Translation
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Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
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MPT Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
With poems by Kenzaburō Ōe, Marina Tsvetaeva, Dalia Taha, Begoña Ugalde and many others.
Guest-edited by Jessica Sequeira
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MPT Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
With poems by Kenzaburō Ōe, Marina Tsvetaeva, Dalia Taha, Begoña Ugalde and many others.
Guest-edited by Jessica Sequeira
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Our latest #FromTheArchive piece is now online – selected by our fabulous Guest Editor Jessica Sequeira!
In this piece she looks back at MPT 'Songs of the Shattered Throat', selecting a poem by Afzal Ahmed Syed translated from Urdu by Taimoor Shahid...
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In this piece she looks back at MPT 'Songs of the Shattered Throat', selecting a poem by Afzal Ahmed Syed translated from Urdu by Taimoor Shahid...
modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
From the archive: Afzal Ahmed Syed translated from Urdu by Taimoor Shahid - Modern Poetry in Translation
Jessica Sequeira writes on Afzal Ahmed Syed translated from Urdu by Taimoor Shahid
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November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Our latest #FromTheArchive piece is now online – selected by our fabulous Guest Editor Jessica Sequeira!
In this piece she looks back at MPT 'Songs of the Shattered Throat', selecting a poem by Afzal Ahmed Syed translated from Urdu by Taimoor Shahid...
modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
In this piece she looks back at MPT 'Songs of the Shattered Throat', selecting a poem by Afzal Ahmed Syed translated from Urdu by Taimoor Shahid...
modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
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To mark Day of the #ImprisonedWriter today, send a message of solidarity through our letter-writing campaign, #PENWrites, and join indie bookshops across the UK who are taking part.
💌 Write a letter of hope: www.englishpen.org/campaigns/pe...
💌 Write a letter of hope: www.englishpen.org/campaigns/pe...
November 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
To mark Day of the #ImprisonedWriter today, send a message of solidarity through our letter-writing campaign, #PENWrites, and join indie bookshops across the UK who are taking part.
💌 Write a letter of hope: www.englishpen.org/campaigns/pe...
💌 Write a letter of hope: www.englishpen.org/campaigns/pe...
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Literary translators! Our publisher, @twolinespress.com, is currently open for submissions for animal stories in translation (from any language) & the Stevns Translation Prize (for Vietnamese translators). As always, no submissions fees.
For more info visit: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
For more info visit: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Literary translators! Our publisher, @twolinespress.com, is currently open for submissions for animal stories in translation (from any language) & the Stevns Translation Prize (for Vietnamese translators). As always, no submissions fees.
For more info visit: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
For more info visit: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
Cover reveal! ✨
MPT ‘The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus’, guest edited by Jessica Sequeira, posts to subscribers and all pre-orders on 28 November.
Cover image: from the Aigis (goatskin, pen), 2015 by Phoebe Giannisi
MPT ‘The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus’, guest edited by Jessica Sequeira, posts to subscribers and all pre-orders on 28 November.
Cover image: from the Aigis (goatskin, pen), 2015 by Phoebe Giannisi
November 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Cover reveal! ✨
MPT ‘The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus’, guest edited by Jessica Sequeira, posts to subscribers and all pre-orders on 28 November.
Cover image: from the Aigis (goatskin, pen), 2015 by Phoebe Giannisi
MPT ‘The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus’, guest edited by Jessica Sequeira, posts to subscribers and all pre-orders on 28 November.
Cover image: from the Aigis (goatskin, pen), 2015 by Phoebe Giannisi
Not to be missed: two events coming up with Phoebe Giannisi in Oxford and Cambridge!
Cambridge: Friday 14th November with translator
Brian Sneeden
www.ccgs.csah.cam.ac.uk/events/poetr...
And in Oxford on 17 November with Brian Sneeden and A. E. Stallings
www.ox.ac.uk/event/phoebe...
Cambridge: Friday 14th November with translator
Brian Sneeden
www.ccgs.csah.cam.ac.uk/events/poetr...
And in Oxford on 17 November with Brian Sneeden and A. E. Stallings
www.ox.ac.uk/event/phoebe...
Poetry, Myth, and the Body: The Launch of Goatsong by Phoebe Giannisi | Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies
Join poet Phoebe Giannisi and translator Brian Sneeden for the launch of Goatsong — a lyrical journey through myth, body, and transformation in Greek poetry.
www.ccgs.csah.cam.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Not to be missed: two events coming up with Phoebe Giannisi in Oxford and Cambridge!
Cambridge: Friday 14th November with translator
Brian Sneeden
www.ccgs.csah.cam.ac.uk/events/poetr...
And in Oxford on 17 November with Brian Sneeden and A. E. Stallings
www.ox.ac.uk/event/phoebe...
Cambridge: Friday 14th November with translator
Brian Sneeden
www.ccgs.csah.cam.ac.uk/events/poetr...
And in Oxford on 17 November with Brian Sneeden and A. E. Stallings
www.ox.ac.uk/event/phoebe...
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Lovely piece from @mptmagazine.bsky.social and @bethangharad.bsky.social, who puts an ear to the archive and walks us through the Darkness with Ana Luísa Amaral and Margaret Jull Costa 👂
(don't forget to read the poem at the end!)
(don't forget to read the poem at the end!)
I wrote a little thing for the @mptmagazine.bsky.social ‘From the Archives’ feature.
I’d love you to give it a read!
modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
I’d love you to give it a read!
modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
From the archive: Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa - Modern Poetry in Translation
Beth Hickling-Moore writes on Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
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November 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Lovely piece from @mptmagazine.bsky.social and @bethangharad.bsky.social, who puts an ear to the archive and walks us through the Darkness with Ana Luísa Amaral and Margaret Jull Costa 👂
(don't forget to read the poem at the end!)
(don't forget to read the poem at the end!)
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I wrote a little thing for the @mptmagazine.bsky.social ‘From the Archives’ feature.
I’d love you to give it a read!
modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
I’d love you to give it a read!
modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
From the archive: Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa - Modern Poetry in Translation
Beth Hickling-Moore writes on Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
modernpoetryintranslation.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I wrote a little thing for the @mptmagazine.bsky.social ‘From the Archives’ feature.
I’d love you to give it a read!
modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
I’d love you to give it a read!
modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
Our latest 'From the Archive' feature is now online!
Beth Hickling-Moore writes on Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
As ever, the article includes a link to read this issue online in full, for free – until 30th Nov!
Beth Hickling-Moore writes on Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
As ever, the article includes a link to read this issue online in full, for free – until 30th Nov!
From the archive: Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa - Modern Poetry in Translation
Beth Hickling-Moore writes on Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
modernpoetryintranslation.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Our latest 'From the Archive' feature is now online!
Beth Hickling-Moore writes on Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
As ever, the article includes a link to read this issue online in full, for free – until 30th Nov!
Beth Hickling-Moore writes on Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
As ever, the article includes a link to read this issue online in full, for free – until 30th Nov!
Thanks to everyone who joined us at Poetry Library on Wednesday!
We had a full house celebrating 60 years of MPT with Richard Hollis, David and Helen Constantine, Sasha Dugdale, plus a video with Cristina Viti presenting selected poems from our online selection of poetry from Gaza.
We had a full house celebrating 60 years of MPT with Richard Hollis, David and Helen Constantine, Sasha Dugdale, plus a video with Cristina Viti presenting selected poems from our online selection of poetry from Gaza.
October 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Thanks to everyone who joined us at Poetry Library on Wednesday!
We had a full house celebrating 60 years of MPT with Richard Hollis, David and Helen Constantine, Sasha Dugdale, plus a video with Cristina Viti presenting selected poems from our online selection of poetry from Gaza.
We had a full house celebrating 60 years of MPT with Richard Hollis, David and Helen Constantine, Sasha Dugdale, plus a video with Cristina Viti presenting selected poems from our online selection of poetry from Gaza.
New podcast!
In this special edition, celebrating the magazine’s 60th anniversary, we return to its earliest days with one of the founding members, the graphic designer Richard Hollis – interviewed by J.S. Tennant.
modernpoetryintranslation.com/podcast-the-...
In this special edition, celebrating the magazine’s 60th anniversary, we return to its earliest days with one of the founding members, the graphic designer Richard Hollis – interviewed by J.S. Tennant.
modernpoetryintranslation.com/podcast-the-...
Podcast: The Early Days of MPT | Richard Hollis speaks to J.S Tennant - Modern Poetry in Translation
In this special edition, celebrating the magazine's 60th anniversary, we return to its earliest days with one of the founding members, the graphic designer of Richard Hollis
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October 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
New podcast!
In this special edition, celebrating the magazine’s 60th anniversary, we return to its earliest days with one of the founding members, the graphic designer Richard Hollis – interviewed by J.S. Tennant.
modernpoetryintranslation.com/podcast-the-...
In this special edition, celebrating the magazine’s 60th anniversary, we return to its earliest days with one of the founding members, the graphic designer Richard Hollis – interviewed by J.S. Tennant.
modernpoetryintranslation.com/podcast-the-...
New online!
Watch our conversation with Ottilie Mulzet and Sara Elkamel as we celebrate MPT Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
Chaired by issue Editor, Jessica Sequeira
🌿 Now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Yd...
@ottiliemulzet.bsky.social
Watch our conversation with Ottilie Mulzet and Sara Elkamel as we celebrate MPT Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
Chaired by issue Editor, Jessica Sequeira
🌿 Now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Yd...
@ottiliemulzet.bsky.social
Launching MPT Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
YouTube video by MPT Magazine
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October 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
New online!
Watch our conversation with Ottilie Mulzet and Sara Elkamel as we celebrate MPT Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
Chaired by issue Editor, Jessica Sequeira
🌿 Now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Yd...
@ottiliemulzet.bsky.social
Watch our conversation with Ottilie Mulzet and Sara Elkamel as we celebrate MPT Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
Chaired by issue Editor, Jessica Sequeira
🌿 Now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Yd...
@ottiliemulzet.bsky.social
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Two pages from Scorched Glass @mptmagazine.bsky.social (see my previous post) with poems by Sabeer Haka, tr. by Nasrin Parwaz & Hubert Moore. The translators indicated censored words with brackets.
October 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Two pages from Scorched Glass @mptmagazine.bsky.social (see my previous post) with poems by Sabeer Haka, tr. by Nasrin Parwaz & Hubert Moore. The translators indicated censored words with brackets.
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Registration for #IPCITI2025, the 18th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting, is now OPEN!! 🎉🎉🎉
🗓️ Register before 24 October to get our special early-bird fee.
🧠 We have a packed two-day programme with plenty of opportunities to network and decompress.
(1/3)
🗓️ Register before 24 October to get our special early-bird fee.
🧠 We have a packed two-day programme with plenty of opportunities to network and decompress.
(1/3)
October 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Registration for #IPCITI2025, the 18th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting, is now OPEN!! 🎉🎉🎉
🗓️ Register before 24 October to get our special early-bird fee.
🧠 We have a packed two-day programme with plenty of opportunities to network and decompress.
(1/3)
🗓️ Register before 24 October to get our special early-bird fee.
🧠 We have a packed two-day programme with plenty of opportunities to network and decompress.
(1/3)
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This is so good to read as this Iranian @mptmagazine.bsky.social issue was one of my very favourite and Farrokhzad is one of the most exciting poets we published. I think she may appear in @poetclare.bsky.social new @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social collection?
I’ve written this month’s ’From The Archive’ feature for @mptmagazine.bsky.social on their 60th anniversary modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
From the Archive: Forugh Farrokhzad translated from Farsi by Sholeh Wolpé - Modern Poetry in Translation
Clare Pollard writes on Forugh Farrokhzad
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September 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This is so good to read as this Iranian @mptmagazine.bsky.social issue was one of my very favourite and Farrokhzad is one of the most exciting poets we published. I think she may appear in @poetclare.bsky.social new @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social collection?
Thrilled to have Clare Pollard write our latest #FromTheArchive piece for September!
(Includes free access to the whole of our Iran focus issue. Link inside the article 👀)
(Includes free access to the whole of our Iran focus issue. Link inside the article 👀)
I’ve written this month’s ’From The Archive’ feature for @mptmagazine.bsky.social on their 60th anniversary modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
From the Archive: Forugh Farrokhzad translated from Farsi by Sholeh Wolpé - Modern Poetry in Translation
Clare Pollard writes on Forugh Farrokhzad
modernpoetryintranslation.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Thrilled to have Clare Pollard write our latest #FromTheArchive piece for September!
(Includes free access to the whole of our Iran focus issue. Link inside the article 👀)
(Includes free access to the whole of our Iran focus issue. Link inside the article 👀)
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Winchester Poetry Festival is approaching. online events are so important for accessibility, but they’re also costly to run & we haven’t sold many online tickets yet. Just wanted to shout that our headline events are
live-streamed and BSL interpreted! 1/3 www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on
live-streamed and BSL interpreted! 1/3 www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on
What's on - Winchester Poetry Festival events in 2025
Details of our forthcoming events and collaborations.
Winchester Poetry Festival runs 2-12th October
www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org
September 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Winchester Poetry Festival is approaching. online events are so important for accessibility, but they’re also costly to run & we haven’t sold many online tickets yet. Just wanted to shout that our headline events are
live-streamed and BSL interpreted! 1/3 www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on
live-streamed and BSL interpreted! 1/3 www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on
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'Atmosphere', by Subhro Bandopadhyay – 📘 🎧 read & listen online
Translated from Bengali by Sampurna Chattarji
Published in the latest MPT – Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/atmosph...
Translated from Bengali by Sampurna Chattarji
Published in the latest MPT – Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/atmosph...
Atmosphere - Modern Poetry in Translation
· Repeatedly October descends On villages deep rivers jungles Waiting and silence Asphyxia and union Repeatedly the sky’s autumn turns its head Towards the meat of greed Village roots bodi...
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September 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
'Atmosphere', by Subhro Bandopadhyay – 📘 🎧 read & listen online
Translated from Bengali by Sampurna Chattarji
Published in the latest MPT – Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/atmosph...
Translated from Bengali by Sampurna Chattarji
Published in the latest MPT – Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/atmosph...
'Atmosphere', by Subhro Bandopadhyay – 📘 🎧 read & listen online
Translated from Bengali by Sampurna Chattarji
Published in the latest MPT – Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/atmosph...
Translated from Bengali by Sampurna Chattarji
Published in the latest MPT – Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/atmosph...
Atmosphere - Modern Poetry in Translation
· Repeatedly October descends On villages deep rivers jungles Waiting and silence Asphyxia and union Repeatedly the sky’s autumn turns its head Towards the meat of greed Village roots bodi...
modernpoetryintranslation.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
'Atmosphere', by Subhro Bandopadhyay – 📘 🎧 read & listen online
Translated from Bengali by Sampurna Chattarji
Published in the latest MPT – Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/atmosph...
Translated from Bengali by Sampurna Chattarji
Published in the latest MPT – Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/atmosph...
'This Kafi by Sanwal Gurmani pulses with the rhythms of love, land, and longing. Set against the backdrop of nature—the forest, the deer, the red earth—it weaves the emotional terrain of human connection into the physical landscape'– Mediah Ahmed
Read online:
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/kafi
Read online:
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/kafi
Kafi - Modern Poetry in Translation
· Introduced and read by Mediah Ahmed, with the original poet Sanwal Gurmani (after Sanwal Gurmani) I sent word to my beloved— a message to return. The forest frets endlessly to own its newborn de...
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September 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
'This Kafi by Sanwal Gurmani pulses with the rhythms of love, land, and longing. Set against the backdrop of nature—the forest, the deer, the red earth—it weaves the emotional terrain of human connection into the physical landscape'– Mediah Ahmed
Read online:
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/kafi
Read online:
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/kafi
NEW ONLINE:
Ehlobo (‘Summer’) by N.S. Sigogo
Translated from isiNdebele by Stephen Walsh
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/summer-2/
Published in the latest MPT: Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
Ehlobo (‘Summer’) by N.S. Sigogo
Translated from isiNdebele by Stephen Walsh
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/summer-2/
Published in the latest MPT: Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
Ehlobo (‘Summer’) - Modern Poetry in Translation
· Read by Stephen Walsh with isiNdebele read by Albert Nyathi Summer-growth’s green, boundless, stretching free. Stretching my heart’s bounds. Rivers, full, fill it up too. And sorghum, ne...
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September 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
NEW ONLINE:
Ehlobo (‘Summer’) by N.S. Sigogo
Translated from isiNdebele by Stephen Walsh
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/summer-2/
Published in the latest MPT: Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
Ehlobo (‘Summer’) by N.S. Sigogo
Translated from isiNdebele by Stephen Walsh
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/summer-2/
Published in the latest MPT: Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature
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Here's my 'short & sweet' poetry newsletter for Sept: info on 'dance as if' launch events in Cornwall & London @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social & recommending @mptmagazine.bsky.social Plus an article on how I write @serenbooks.bsky.social See mailchi.mp/10e91fb65935...
#danceasif #poetry #howiwrite
#danceasif #poetry #howiwrite
September 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Here's my 'short & sweet' poetry newsletter for Sept: info on 'dance as if' launch events in Cornwall & London @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social & recommending @mptmagazine.bsky.social Plus an article on how I write @serenbooks.bsky.social See mailchi.mp/10e91fb65935...
#danceasif #poetry #howiwrite
#danceasif #poetry #howiwrite
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By Ethiopian poet and activist Gemoraw (from @mptmagazine.bsky.social) “If we find ourselves in a free country / what is the use of freedom / if we do not speak for the speechless?”
September 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
By Ethiopian poet and activist Gemoraw (from @mptmagazine.bsky.social) “If we find ourselves in a free country / what is the use of freedom / if we do not speak for the speechless?”
READ ONLINE:
My heart is an active volcano
Begoña Ugalde, translated from Chilean Spanish by Drago Yurac
🔉Including audio recordings from Begoña Ugalde and Drago Yurac
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/my-hear...
My heart is an active volcano
Begoña Ugalde, translated from Chilean Spanish by Drago Yurac
🔉Including audio recordings from Begoña Ugalde and Drago Yurac
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/my-hear...
My heart is an active volcano - Modern Poetry in Translation
· To learn or try to translate the quiet language of the Andes its paths populated by endemic shrubs whose names I can’t pronounce I go on all fours like a mountain animal seeking to escape from preda...
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September 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
READ ONLINE:
My heart is an active volcano
Begoña Ugalde, translated from Chilean Spanish by Drago Yurac
🔉Including audio recordings from Begoña Ugalde and Drago Yurac
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/my-hear...
My heart is an active volcano
Begoña Ugalde, translated from Chilean Spanish by Drago Yurac
🔉Including audio recordings from Begoña Ugalde and Drago Yurac
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/my-hear...
'Listen how the tigers love each other
and the jungle fills with their deep panting,
and the night splits open with their ferocious lightning.'
Harmony – Piedad bonnet, translated from Colombian Spanish by Richard Gwyn
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/harmony/
and the jungle fills with their deep panting,
and the night splits open with their ferocious lightning.'
Harmony – Piedad bonnet, translated from Colombian Spanish by Richard Gwyn
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/harmony/
Harmony - Modern Poetry in Translation
Listen how the tigers love each other and the jungle fills with their deep panting, and the night splits open with their ferocious lightning. See how the stars revolve in harmony’s eternal dance and t...
modernpoetryintranslation.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
'Listen how the tigers love each other
and the jungle fills with their deep panting,
and the night splits open with their ferocious lightning.'
Harmony – Piedad bonnet, translated from Colombian Spanish by Richard Gwyn
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/harmony/
and the jungle fills with their deep panting,
and the night splits open with their ferocious lightning.'
Harmony – Piedad bonnet, translated from Colombian Spanish by Richard Gwyn
modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/harmony/
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'A poet with his feet firmly planted on the blood-stained earth who, not naively but stubbornly, keeps looking toward optimism is a beacon in these fraught times.'
Lawrence Schimel on Nikola Madzirov tr Peggy & Graham Reid in our latest #FromTheArchive
modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
Lawrence Schimel on Nikola Madzirov tr Peggy & Graham Reid in our latest #FromTheArchive
modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...
From the Archive: Nikola Madzirov translated from Macedonian by Peggy and Graham Reid - Modern Poetry in Translation
Lawrence Schimel writes on Macedonian poet Nikola Madzirov
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August 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM