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2013 Number 1

Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT) has had a radical change of image. We have been working with Katy Mawhood at Re...

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Stranded

We still don’t know what it was,
the creature that lay here yesterday,
its wings spread out on the sand,
bulk almost too big f...

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Event: MPT at Keats Festival

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Sunday 2nd June, 3-4.30pm Free, The Nightingale Room, Keats House

Celebrate the changing face of Modern Poetry in Translation at the Keats Festival with Chris Beckett, poet and translator of Ethiopian poetry, Frances Leviston, whose first collection Public Dream was shortlisted for the TS Elliot Prize, and Fiona Sze-Lorrain, poet and translator from C...

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Upcoming: Summer 2013

MPT (Modern Poetry in Translation) appears three times a year – in Spring, Summer and Autumn. The issues are no longer themed, but wherever possible the poems and prose articles resonate with each other in some way, either because they share a common culture, or they share concerns or a poetic approach.

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Pussy Riot Testimonies

The trial of three women who climbed onto the ambo of the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow to sing a protest 'punk prayer' has been international news. There has been widespread condemnation of the harsh treatment meted out to these young women, who caused no damage or injury, and yet have spent five months in remand prison and now face a three-year prison sentence...

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