Modern Poetry in Translation | The Best of World Poetry

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Web Name: Modern Poetry in Translation | The Best of World Poetry

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If No One Names Us: Focus On Mexico MPT’s summer issue ‘If No One Names Us‘ focuses on Mexico, and includes new translations of legendary figures such as Pita Amor and Nahui Olin, as well as contemporary poets including Natalia Toledo, Elena Poniatowska, Tedi López Mills and Mikeas Sanchez, and contributions from British LatinX poets including Juana Adock and Leo Boix. Also: poems in response to CK Norwid’s centenary, a new translation of Jacques Brel’s ‘Amsterdam’, Endre Ruset’s concrete elegies for those who died in the terrorist attack at Utøya, and ‘Butterfly Valley’, a gorgeous sonnet redoublé by Inger Christensen. AVAILABLE NOW Insatiable Thirst Nahui Olin My spirit and my body are forever mad with thirstfor those new worldsthat I go on endlessly creating,and of the thingsand of the elements[...] Translated by Claire Mullen Opposing Silence Juana Karen Peñate How far does my voice carry?How to oppose the silence?From the jungle to the city,there’s no way out, say the Ch’ols, the Tseltals,the Tsotsils, the Tojolabals.[...] Translated by Wendy Call and Sarah Van Arsdale Visitor Natalia Toledo He appears beneath the olive flowerand pricks the moon’s navel.You cry like a turtle each time she lays eggs:she knows she’ll never see her children again.You roll up in the woven corners of your petate,ants pinch your body. [...] Translated by Irma Pineda and Clare Sullivan To Poet Cyprian Kamil Norwid Malika Booker Cyprian (Polish brethren poet from our past)can I tell you there is a heft to your o!A whole poem in the exclamation o! Herea mouth is tunnel for change. The moutha vessel, this o! with implicit no and groan[...] In response to Cyprian Kamil Norwid’s poem 'To Citizen John Brown' MPT at Ledbury Poetry Festival – 8 July 2021 15th June 2021 Join Modern Poetry in Translation’s editor Clare Pollard to celebrate the launch of MPT s summer issue ‘If No One Names Us: Focus on Mexico’. 200th anniversary of the birth of Polish poet, Cyprian Kamil Norwid 14th June 2021 We are delighted to be working in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Cyprian Kamil Norwid. Unreal Worlds (?) 14th September 2021 On real life and real art, between Romania and the UK by Sam Riviere, one of Modern Poetry in Translation’s 2021 Writers in Residence Pure Love at Sea-Side Bathing 21st June 2021 A short verse play by Cyprian Norwid – translated and introduced by Adam Czerniawski Ideal worlds (?) 15th June 2021 On contemporary women s writing in Romania, by Cătălina Stanislav, one of Modern Poetry in Translation’s 2021 Writers in Residence You Mess Around in My Chaos 19th August 2021 Belinda Cooke reviews Night Truck Driver by Marcin Świetlicki, translated by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese, Zephyr Press, 2020 The Power of Song 20th July 2021 Amlanjyoti Goswami reviews Homeland: Eighteen Bitter Songs by Yannis Ritsos, translated by David Harsent, Rack Press, 2021 Translating Towards the Light 11th June 2021 Joanna Lee reviews PA-LIWANAG (To the Light), edited by Gantala Press, Tilted Axis, 2020. Living in the In-Between 11th May 2021 Jennifer Langer reviews Café by Wren’s St James-in-the Fields, Lunchtime / Kawiarnia przy St James’s Wrena w porze lunchu, by Anna Blasiak (poetry) and Lisa Kalloo (photography). What a Piece of Work is Man 20th April 2021 Belinda Cooke reviews El Bosque de Birnam / Birnam Wood by José Manuel Cardona, translated by Hélène Cardona, Salmon Poetry, 2019. Thickets of Interior Lushlush 19th March 2021 Annie Fan reviews Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From by Sawako Nakayasu, Wave Books, 2020. Latest IssueIssue Number 2 2021MPT’s summer issue ‘If No One Names Us‘ focuses on Mexico, and includes new translations of legendary figures such as Pita Amor and Nahui Olin, as well as contemporary poets including Natalia Toledo, Elena Poniatowska, Tedi López Mills and Mikeas Sanchez, and contributions from British LatinX poets including Juana Adock and Leo Boix. Also: poems in response to CK Norwid’s centenary, a new translation of Jacques Brel’s ‘Amsterdam’, Endre Ruset’s concrete elegies for those who died in the terrorist attack at Utøya, and ‘Butterfly Valley’, a gorgeous sonnet redoublé by Inger Christensen. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.Subscribe for just £23Learn moreJoin us onMailing ListSubscribe to our mailing list to receive our regular email newsletter, with MPT news, links to poems, special offers, articles and events. Click here if you would like to receive select third party emails from partner organisations in literature and arts Support MPTDid you know that MPT is a charity?There are no other magazines dedicated solely to poetry in translation and without us much important work would not reach an Anglophone audience. Help us secure the future of MPT for decades to come.Find out moreMake a donation

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