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The Dialect of the Tribe

Series 3 Number 16

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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

Event: Launch of our Rocco Scotellaro, Poems pamphlet, Wednesday 7th March 2012

You are warmly invited to the launch of our first MPT Poets pamphlet Rocco Scotellaro, Poems at The Italian Bookshop, 5 Cecil Court, WC2N 4EZ, London, on Wednesday 7th March 2012 at 6.30pm. Free entrance and wine. Readers will be Cristina Viti, Allen Prowle and Caroline Maldonado.

The MPT Poets pamphlets series features an extended selection of translated poems by...

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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

Language at the Edge

There is a persistent notion, not least in translation, of ‘poetry at the edge’, which means perhaps where language is strained, somewhere this side but only just (as it might seem) this side of silence. And there might be some attempt to speak of the ‘beyond’, of the ‘other’, of silence itself as if it can be eased into yielding up more. Or that holding this particular...

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