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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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Featured Poem

Stranded

By Ester Naomi Perquin, translated by Paul Vincent

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.

There are no longer be deadlines for submissions.

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Features and Reviews

Reforging the ‘Broken Language’ Romani Poetry

The dialect of my tribe is Romani. Sorì simensar sì mèn: ‘We are all one: all who are with us are ourselves.’ I am Romani and I am Gaji.

Gaji is Romani for non-Romani.

Here is my story.

My mother is a Poshrat, a half-blood Rom. She is the seventh child of a seventh child and claims to possess second sight among other powers. During my childhood in the 1970s we were...

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