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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 10d

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?

Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 10d

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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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · 10d

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 👀)

Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 10d

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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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 16d

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

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

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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · 18d

'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

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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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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · 18d

And guest editing the forthcoming issue, too! (Janani Ambikapathy is back from leave after that, and picking back up with the first issue of 2026)

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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · 18d

'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...

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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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · 22d

'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

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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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · 24d

NEW ONLINE:

Ehlobo (‘Summer’) by N.S. Sigogo
Translated from isiNdebele by Stephen Walsh

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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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Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social · 25d

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

A smiling woman in leopard print top sitting by a window in the sun

Cover image of a new book 'dance as if' by Katrina Naomi which features a silver glitter ball

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Josephine Corcoran @andotheritems.bsky.social · Sep 10

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?”

MPT MAGAZINE
(2016)
‘For The Voiceless People’ by Gemoraw

Of all freedoms, speech is the first, and it is the tongue which allows us to voice our desires and our desiring.
If the tongue is tied down and cannot tell what we feel, not only our flesh is tied, but our soul. And if our fellow man is tongue-tied, we must speak for him too!
If we find ourselves in a free country, what is the use of freedom,
if we do not speak for the speechless?
Is it a crime to say I am their fellow man?
your tongues are burning, your hunger is raging! blame the drought! say our Authorities.
But for all those whose voice is silenced, and who cannot cry help! for themselves: cry help!!
TRANSLATION: CHRIS BECKET &
ALEMU TEBEJE

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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

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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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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · Sep 1

'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

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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...

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · Aug 31

#translation #poetry #poetrycommunity #xl8

Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 29

'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

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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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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 29

'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

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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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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 29

We ran out of characters to tag you in this post, @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social! ❤️

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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 29

'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...

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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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 27

Very pleased to annouce the next edition of MPT Labs!

Embodying Translation: Poetry’s Lea(r)nings – online workshop with Erín Moure

Limited to 8 places

£10 for subscribers – or £39 plus a 1 year subscription

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MPT Labs: Embodying Translation: Poetry’s Lea(r)nings – workshop with Erín Moure - Modern Poetry in Translation

Online | £10 / £39 | 8th October, 6.30pm-8.30pm BST

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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 26

'Look how we love our universities,
our plums, our country’s crisp air,
our Za’atar, our poets,
our villages blown to pieces.'

From 'Enter Palestinian love', Dalia Taha tr. Sara Elkamel

Read full poem online: modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/enter-p...

Enter Palestinian Love - Modern Poetry in Translation

We Palestinians love what we love a little more than we should. Look how we love our universities, our plums, our country’s crisp air, our Za’atar, our poets, our villages blown to pieces. We are alwa...

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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 25

NEW ONLINE

Memento Poem by Kenzaburō Ōe, translated from #Japanese by Akagi Kobayashi

Published in the latest MPT Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature

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Memento Poem - Modern Poetry in Translation

The little thing that has overcome the inherent violence of birth keeps shut its yet unseeing eyes tight. My first grandchild — I see my likeness in his face, and as I draw closer, sensing the movemen...

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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · Aug 22

Extract from ‘Cow’ – six poems by Uruguayan poet Claudia Magliano in @mptmagazine.bsky.social tr. Jesse Lee Kercheval & Jeannine Marie Pitas. Have a look! 🐄

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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 22

You can also read fabulous poems by the other prizewinners and commended writers:

before we close like eyelids, by Jolyn Lim

polyphony, Aarohi Deshmukh

dog thoughts/fox thoughts, Immy Pridmore

City Fox, Mikala Smee

if your grandpa was made of soap, Madeleine Oliver

Dive into the Archives: A Writing Challenge with Modern Poetry in Translation – Young Poets Network

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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 22

The results of our collaboration with @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social are now available to read online!

ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/div...

Congratulations to Rucha Virmani with the winning poem 'December Heat' (written in response to 'And more' by Felícia Fuster, translated by Marialena Carr.)

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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 22

OUT NOW!

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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The cover has a dark blue background with a paler blue image of low hills with flat grassland on the lower third of the page. On the right is a large white and pale-blue image of a long thin plant with five leaves and some small flowers at the top. It reaches about three-quarters of the way up the page, framing the cover. On the left is a similar sized pale blue-and-white image of bent grass, with some leaning towards the centre of the page as if blown by the wind. This image spreads onto the back page where there are also two smaller pale blue images of leaves.

the back cover, featuring contributor names to this issue.

AKAGI KOBAYASHI ◆ ALAA ALQAISI ◆ ALI AKKOUR ◆
ALI ASADOLLAHI ◆ ALTON MELVAR M. DAPANAS ◆
ANNA YIN ◆ ASHU LAL ◆ BEGOÑA UGALDE ◆ BILL
COYLE ◆ CINDY A. VELASQUEZ ◆ CLAUDIA MAGLIANO ◆
DALIA TAHA ◆ DRAGO YURAC ◆ ELENA SALAMANCA ◆
ELLEN CORBETT ◆ EMI MIYAOKA ◆ ERIKA MIHÁLYCSA ◆
GABRIELA RUIVO ◆ GILLES MADAN ◆ GIZELLA HERVAY ◆
HÅKAN SANDELL ◆ HILARY BIRD ◆ JEANNINE MARIE
PITAS ◆ JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL ◆ KENZABURŌ ŌE ◆
LAOIGHSEACH NÍ CHOISTEALBHA ◆ MAARJA
PÄRTNA ◆ MAGDA SZÉKELY ◆ MARINA TSVETAEVA ◆
MEDIAH AHMED ◆ N.S. SIGOGO ◆ OTTILIE MULZET ◆
PIEDAD BONNETT ◆ RICHARD GWYN ◆ RIFAT
ABBAS ◆ RYAN GREENE ◆ SAMPURNA CHATTARJI ◆
SANWAL GURMANI ◆ SARA ELKAMEL ◆
STEPHEN CAPUS ◆ STEPHEN WALSH ◆ SUBHRO
BANDOPADHAY ◆ TAUQIR REZA ◆ YAN LI ◆
ZSUZSA BENEY ◆ ZSUZSA RAKOVSZKY ◆

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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 12

Of course we spot the typo in our post only now 🧐

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