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Parnassus
Series 3 No. 17
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Allegro
By Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Ingar Palmlund
I play Haydn after a dark day
and sense an honest warmth in my hands.
The keys are willing. Mild hammers strike.
The tone is...
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Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT) is delighted to announce that the poet and translator Sasha Dugdale will succeed David and Helen Constantine as editor from 2013.
Sasha Dugdale will follow in the footsteps of Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort, founding editors of MPT (1965), and current Editors David and Helen Constantine, who said:
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The next issue of Modern Poetry in Translation (Third Series, Number 18, Autumn 2012) will be called ‘Transitions’.
The present issue, ‘Parnassus’, is the last under our sole editorship. The next issue, ‘Transitions’, will be jointly edited by us and whoever succeeds us. So in that obvious sense the autumn issue will be transitional. But we are looking for contributions...
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I have been teaching seminars at Manchester University, for an undergraduate course called Textual Communities. The course is constructed around an essay by Edward Said called ‘The World, the Text and the Critic’, in which Said argues that all texts are worldly – they don’t belong to a pure separate sphere of art, but are deeply implicated in the world, formed by the com...
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