Modern Poetry in Translation

Freed Speech, Series 3 No.12

By Helen Constantine, David Constantine

'Freed Speech was reviewed by the Guardian, here.

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Editorial David and Helen Constantine

See How I Land: Oxford poets and exiled writers. Poems by Dawood, Jamie McKendrick, Yousif Qasmiyeh and Bernard O’Donoghue from Farsi and Arabic

Yannis Ritsos, ‘Tombs of our Ancestors’, translated by Sarah Kafatou from Modern Greek

Yannis Ritsos, four poems, translated by Robert Hull from Modern Greek

Berkan Karpat and Zafer Şenocak, ‘nâzim hikmet: on the ship to mars’, translated by Tom Cheesman from German

Edith Södergran, four poems, translated by Mike Horwood from Swedish

Ernst Stadler, two poems, translated by John Greening from German

‘Gandhari’s Lament’, from the Mahabharata, translated by Carole Satyamurti from Sanskrit

Annemarie Austin, ‘Come the Thaw’

F. Mehrban, two poems, translated by the author and Helen Smith from Farsi

Seamus Heaney, three ‘Freed Voices’ from Aeneid VI from Latin

Archilochus, ‘The Cologne Epode’, translated by William Heath from Ancient Greek

Sappho, Fragment 58, translated by John Morey from Ancient Greek

Shazea Quraishi, poems from The Courtesan’s Reply from Sanskrit

Poems from Romania, translated by Adam Sorkin and others from Romanian

Marie Luise Kaschnitz, two poems, translated by Harry Guest from German

Amit Chaudhuri, ‘The Writers’

Jazra Khaleed, three poems, translated by Peter Constantine from Modern Greek

Mangalesh Dabral, three poems, translated by Sudeep Sen from Hindi

Pawlo Tychyna, six poems, translated by Steve Komarnyckyj from Ukranian

Wojciech Bonowicz, six poems, translated by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese from Polish

David Huerta, ‘Nine Years Later – A Poem Dated’, translated by Tom Boll and The Poetry Translation Centre Workshop from Spanish (Mexico)

Robert Hull, ‘At the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture’

Brecht, ten poems, translated by David Constantine from German

Michael Foley, ‘Wang Wei in Exile’ from Chinese

Wang Wei, ‘Autumnal Dusk in the Mountains’, translated by Julian Farmer from Chinese

Jennie Feldman, ‘Olive Trees, West Bank’

Chris Beckett, six Ethiopian poems

Patrice de La Tour du Pin, ‘Children of September’, translated by Padraig Rooney from French

Ivan Teofilov, six poems, translated by Jonathan Dunne from Bulgarian

Louis Aragon, ‘Lilac and Roses’, translated by Tom Chamberlain from French

Louis Aragon, ‘Epilogue’, translated by John Manson from French

Homero Aridjis, six poems, translated by George McWhirter from Spanish (Mexico)

David and Helen Constantine, A Note on James Kirkup

Reviews

Belinda Cooke on David Scott’s Mallarmé

Paschalis Nikolaou on Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke

Emily Lygo on Belinda Cooke’s Tsvetaeva

Josephine Balmer, Further Books: Writing Women