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The Dialect of the Tribe

Series 3 Number 16

The current issue of Modern Poetry in Translation (Third Series, Number 16) is called ‘The Dialect of the Tribe’. ISBN&nb...

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Translation of the month

Night

By Wojciech Bonowicz, translated by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

The poem
first shuts you inside.
It doesn’t want
you to look around, search
for different words
in different poems.

You sit c...

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News & events

MPT Poetry Translation Competition

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 1st FEBRUARY 2012

You are invited to enter the first MPT Poetry Translation Competition. Entries by 1st February 2012. Translate any poem on the subject of FREEDOM into English verse. The poem may be in any language, from any age, and in translation should not exceed twenty lines. The original text should be submitted with your translation.

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Upcoming: Parnassus

The next issue of Modern Poetry in Translation (Third Series, Number 17, Spring 2012) will be called ‘Parnassus’.

This issue will be largely given over to a collaboration with ‘Poetry Parnassus’ – the Southbank Centre’s celebration of the 2012 London Olympics. Poets from all 205 participating countries will be invited to London and MPT will be a place where some transl...

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Features and Reviews

Poetry Translation Workshops

The MPT Editors, David and Helen Constantine, have had the opportunity to run poetry translation workshops in schools, and as part of poetry courses such as Arvon, and poetry festivals including Aldeburgh over the last few years. They have also participated in a workshop organised by the British Council in Russia. MPT Board members such as Amarjit Chandan have also been...

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