Modern Poetry in Translation

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 poets and translators first discovered in MPT, whose work the editors feel deserves wider attention. Rocco Scotellaro, first appeared i...

MPT Poetry Translation Competition

11th November 2011

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 1st FEBRUARY 2012

You are invited to enter the first MPT Poetry Translation Competition. Entries by 1st February 2012. Translate any poem on the subject of FREEDOM into English verse. The poem may be in any language, from any age, and in translation should not exceed twenty lines. The original text should be submitted with your translation.

First prize: £200. Second prize: £75. Three runners-up: one year’s free subscription to MPT. All winners and runners-up will have their poems pu...

Event: Launch of 'The Dialect of the Tribe' at Lauderdale House, Thursday 10th November 2011

Join us for readings from our Autumn issue at Lauderdale House. MPT 3/16 'The Dialect of the Tribe' will celebrate the poetry of minority languages and explore the struggle for what John Clare called ‘self-identity’, a chief factor in which is bound to be language, one’s own peculiar tongue and the dialect of the tribe.

Readers will be MPT's Editors David and Helen Constantine, Philip Gross, Christopher Pilling, Saradha Soobrayen and Karen McCarthy Woolf.

Philip Gross’s The Water Table received the T...

Launching 'Poetry & The State' at Amnesty International - 20th September, 2011

26th August 2011

In partnership with Amnesty International and Poet in the City, MPT will be launching 'Poetry & The State' on September 20th, 2011.

Come along for an evening of readings from MPT 3:15, Poetry & The State, with discussions on the relationship of poetry to state and poet to state.

The event will begin at 6:30p.m. with readings commencing at 7p.m. Please do be sure to get there in plenty of time.

The event is due to finish at 9p.m.

Readers will be:

Jennie Feldman
Tim Allen
Amarjit Chandan
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Announcing the MPT Summer Reading Challenge!

24th May 2011

Fancy reading something a bit different this Summer?

Modern Poetry in Translation is launching the MPT Summer Reading Challenge which features the very latest titles in world poetry in translation.

Whether you are staying at home or abroad, choose up to two books from the Books Received list and then send us a postcard via the website. Simply share your journey through the book in 100 words or less. No experience of languages or reviewing necessary.

To take part email Saradha saying which titles you'...