Modern Poetry in Translation

Parnassus, Series 3 No. 17

By David and Helen Constantine

The next issue of Modern Poetry in Translation (Third Series, Number 17, Spring 2012) will be called ‘Parnassus’.

This issue will be largely given over to a collaboration with ‘Poetry Parnassus’ – the Southbank Centre’s celebration of the 2012 London Olympics. Poets from all 205 participating countries will be invited to London and MPT will be a place where some translations of their poems can be published. But, to enlarge our contribution, we want translated poems, brief essays, anecdotes and images concerned, in whatever fashion, with the Games (ancient or modern) or with Parnassus, home of the Muses. Parnassus was a sacred site for the whole Greek world; Delphi, below that mountain, was ‘the navel of the earth’; for the duration of the Olympics a truce was declared so that athletes could come and go safely. The modern Olympics are world–wide: we want MPT 3/17 to be just as extensive and various.

Submissions should be sent by 1 February 2012, please, in hard copy, with return postage, to The Editors, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Queen’s College, Oxford, OX1 4AW. Unless agreed in advance, submissions by email will not be accepted. Only very exceptionally will we consider work that has already been published elsewhere. Translators are themselves responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions. Contributors should be aware that work published in MPT may also appear on our website and as an e-book, and will be accessible to readers who have subscribed to the digital version of the magazine

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