Digital Edition now available! Click the link< for a FREE trial issue.The international magazine for the translation of poetry into English.We invite you to read a selection of work and browse the contents of Series 3 issues. You can also consult our submission guidelines. For Series 3 issues which do not appear below please look under Recent Issues.MPT NEWSThe next issue of Modern Poetry in Translation (Third Series, Number 12, autumn 2009) will be called ‘Freed Speech’. This year sees the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. One of those rights is freedom of speech. In our next issue we want to celebrate speech that has been freed. Poetry and translation, working together, have often been the means and the best expression of that liberation. We want examples from past and present, from all over the world, from all manner of circumstances, of people being enabled to speak and of their voices being heard. Of course, we must show the repression and harming of those voices too. But chiefly we hope this issue will be celebratory.We want it to show the triumph of the will to speak, the freeing, the recovery and the enjoyment of tongues. And in this might be included texts which, for one reason or another lost or hidden, have now come to light Submissions should be sent by 1 August 2009 – see submissions guidelines.Launch of FRONTIERS,, the Spring issue of Modern Poetry in TranslationEvent Date: 04/06/2009FRONTIERS, the Spring issue of Modern Poetry in Translation will be launched on 4 June. There will be readings by contributing poets and translators, followed by discussion. Every issue of MPT crosses frontiers. Contributions come in from all over the world. Copies go out world-wide. Whatever their subjects, the translations themselves, out of many languages, cross frontiers of space and time. The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, 111 Isledon Rd, London, N7 7JW, 7pm, free. Tel: 020 7697 7777.
