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Strange Tracks
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
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
Strange Tracks
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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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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Ted Hughes, Selected Translations, edited by Daniel Weissbort
With MPT now in its third series, it seems fitting to review a text by its two co-founders. Daniel Weissbort provides both an insider’s knowledge of Hughes’ working practices and a retrospective on why they started MPT in the first place—a decision triggered by Hughes’ encounter with various East European poets in the fifties and linked to his role in establishing the an...
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