Modern Poetry in Translation

Meles Negusse

Poet

Meles Negusse is an Eritrean writer, poet and journalist. He has worked for Radio Zara, Radio Bana, and Tsigenay.  

His poem featured in MPT 3/5 'Transgressions' is also published in:

Who Needs a Story? Contemporary Eritrean Poetry in Tigrinya, Tigre and Arabic
Hdri Publishers, Asmara, Eritrea, 2006 ISBN 99948-0-008-6

Charles Cantalupo and Ghirmai Negash
The first anthology of contemporary Eritrean poetry in translation ever published, Who Needs a Story? features Eritrea's most accomplished poets over roughly the last three decades.

"For at least four thousand years -- from the ancient stele in Belew Kelew to the 20th-century battlefields of Eritrea's heroic struggle for independence -- and into the 21st century, Eritrean poets have never given up writing in their own languages, which is why their poetry thrives. Who Needs a Story? translates this remarkable legacy."
NGUGI WA THIONG'O