Modern Poetry in Translation

The best of world poetry

MPT 6 (Series 1)

When Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort founded MPT in 1965 they had two principal ambitions: to get poetry out from behind the Iron Curtain into a wider circulation in English and to benefit writers and the reading public in Britain and America by confronting them with good work from abroad. They published poetry that dealt truthfully with the real contemporary world. For more than 40 years MPT has continued and widened that founding intent.

Poetry from Peru and Russia (Series 2)

Now in its Third Series MPT builds on the first editors’ extraordinary achievement. It affirms the vital importance of poetry in the modern world. It brings the best new translations, essays, reviews and occasional poems that address such characteristic signs of our times as exile, the movement of peoples, the search for asylum, and the speaking of languages outside their native home.

Love and War (Series 3)

The new editors, David and Helen Constantine, seek to widen and diversify the whole idea and practice of translation. They are on the look-out for transformations and metamorphoses of all kinds: down the ages, across the frontiers and cultures. They have increased the rate and scope of MPT’s linked activities such as translation workshops, poetry pamphlets, public poetry readings here and abroad, and partnerships with literary festivals including Poetry International and Aldeburgh. They actively seek new audiences. MPT is flourishing.