Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Arc Publications Six Macedonian Poets
Book SynopsisThe eighth in Arc's New Voices from Europe and Beyond series of anthologies, Six Macedonian Poets features the work of three men and three women – Elizabeta Bakovska (b. 1969), Lidija Dimkovska (b. 1971), Bogomil Gjuzel (b. 1939), Igor Isakovski (b. 1970), Jovica Ivanovski (b. 1961) and Katica Kulavkova (b. 1951) – who have helped to shape the face of contemporary Macedonian poetry over the past five decades. Translated by a range of highly-regarded translators, and introduced by the editor of Macedonia's leading online literary magazine Blesok, this volume is a window on the poetry of one of Europe's least-known and most intriguing 'corners'.This is a bilingual edition, with the Macedonian original and the English translation on facing pages."Such books - such poets - are I suppose a kind of immigration, welcomed by Arc, voices on the page free to come amongst us. Welcome."StrideIgor Isakovski is a poet, prose writer, translator and editor. He was born in 1970 in Skopje, Macedonia. He received a BA in World and Comparative Literature from St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje and an MA in Gender and Culture from the Central European University in Budapest. From 1991 to 2003, he worked as a presenter at various radio and TV stations in Macedonia. He is the founder and director of the cultural institution Blesok, where he works as editor-in-chief.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface, Introduction, ELIZABETA BAKOSKA: Biography, The Way You Finally Made Me Leave, Expecting, Reprimanding, Being Alone, Creating, Powerless, I broke into Tears, The Vardar Song, The Bull Who sat for Too Long, My Child, Fogive Me for I Have Done Nothing, The Persian Bride, Complaint of the Generals, Roxanne's Lament. LIDIJA DIMOVSKA: Biography, Decent Girl, Aloa Vera, The Poem at the Beginning, Nail Clippers, Memory, Key, Difference, The Walls, The Poetics of Life, Ripeness. BOGOMIL GJUZEL:Biography, Troy, The Apocolyptic Spring, Vision, Heretic, A Stranger at Home, Breaking Up the Wall, Prometheus's Eagle, An Island on Land, The End of the Century, Professional Poet. KATA KULAVKOVA:Biography,Swarming Bees, Dark Moon, Warm Blood, A Child's Confession, The Great Mother, The Ritual of Perfection, Sunset Above Ohrid: Magic, A Babylonian Tale, A Macedonian Tale, A Dark Age, A Nervous Breakdown: Excess of Reality. IGOR ISAOVSKI:Biography,Alone, Alright, Calm Poem, Sultriness Over Mountain, Water, Bucharest 5.30, How to Write a Poem, Dear Sun, Reclining on Verses, TV Screen & Jim Beam. JOVICA IVANOVSKI:Biography,Doesn't Matter - I Greet Everyone, The Sun Doesn't Matter So Much, Ten Years Ago, After New Year, After Sex, The Woman Passenger, After the Kids Fall Asleep, Divorce, Man, What Legs, She Wants to Lick Ice Cream and Circle the Fountain on Roller Skates in the Twilight Before Going to Work, Funeral. About the Translators and Introducer
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Arc Publications Six Catalan poets
Book SynopsisHistory shows how Catalan culture has overcome critical situations far more adverse than the present. The Catalan language has not been replaced and this anthology contains four Catalans, one Valencian and one Mallorcan, who, although they lived through the tail end of the dictatorship, grew up under a democratic regime. Together, their work could not be more modern, comprehensive or polyphonic: politics and history cohabit with love (both heterosexual and homoerotic), learned allusion and popular image, stanzaic rigour and freedom of form, the song to the land of one's birth and hymn to the voyage. Featuring the work of six of Catalonia's leading poets - Josep Lluis Aguilo, Elies Barbera, Manuel Forcano, Gemma Gorga, Jordi Julia, Carles Torner - translated by a prize-winning translator, and with an introductory essay which sets the poets within a wider literary context.Table of ContentsSeries editor's preface / 9, Introduction / 11, CARLES TORNER, Biography / 27, "Let us think death into the centre of life - " / 29, The Child / 31, The Plundering Angel / 29, Just Before the Fire / 31, Circus / 31, Objects / 33, Device / 35, The Red Van / 37, Abraham's Gesture / 39, Untranslating Europe / 41, GEMMA GORGA, Biography / 55, Going Back / 57, Horoscope / 57, The Aged Penelope Speaks / 59, Stones / 61, Joyeux Noel / 63, Rest / 65, We Forgot / 65, Phosphorus / 67, Little Story / 67, Landing / 69, Amusement Park / 69, The Sky Above Berlin / 71, Long Journey / 73, Distance / 73, A Woman / 75, Pomegranate / 75, Book of Minutes (extracts) / 77, MANUEL FORCANO, Biography / 83, "As dusk gathers and deepens - " / 85, "In bed, when the light is gone - " / 85, "My love is - " / 85, "It is always night - " / 85 , Ephraim's Wood / 87, Trompe L'Oeil / 87, Late / 87, At Night / 89, At the Archaeological Museum in Damascus / 89, Trebizond / 89, Exile / 91, Pindar's House / 91, The Roses of Isfahan / 93, Poetica / 93, Assault / 95, Ombra mai fu / 95, At the Cafe Sahel in Aleppo / 97, At Last / 105, Law Governing Aliens / 105, Walking Through The Call / 107, JOSE LLUIS AGUILO Biography / 111, Songs of the Tiller, XII / 113, The Secret Library / 113, The Devil's Bridges / 115, Parallelisms / 115, The Season of Shadows / 119, Words / 121, Lucifer / 121, The Attic / 123, Minotaur / 125, The Flying Dutchman / 125, I Have Lost a Few Lines / 127, Tumbleweed / 129, Reader / 131, The Contract / 133, ELIES BARBERA Biography / 137, Unlucky Mickey Mouse / 139, Autumn Leaves / 141, The Coward's Hymn / 141, Oratory / 145, Ashes to Ashes / 147, Earliest Smell / 147, 20 Nov 75, Day Of Ponds / 149, Emeralds / 149, Archaeologist / 153, Sister Anorexia / 153, Industrial Estate / 157, JORDI JULIA Biography / 163, Glances / 165, Toffee / 165, Saturday Men / 167, The Forbidden City / 169, Bad Readers / 171, Through Jungles and Deserts / 173, The Pleasure Principle / 175, Tortoises / 175, Children's Song / 177, Deep in the Flesh / 179, Looking for Roots / 181, Older Cousins / 183, The Hidden Bird / 183, When You Are Sad / 185
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Arc Publications The Parley Tree: Poets from French-Speaking
Book SynopsisPoetry is one of the major forms of expression in both Africa and the Arab World, and this anthology gives a glimpse of the most representative voices of the French-speaking countries of these two regions. The past half-century has confirmed their work as poetry of great literary quality, full of a unique vitality and presence.The Traveller's Tree presents poems from Algeria (Mohammed Dib, Habib Tengour); Cameroon (Paul Dakeyo); Chad (Nimrod); Congo Brazzaville (Alain Mabanckou, Tchicaya U Tam Si); Democratic Republic of Congo (Kama Kamanda); Djibouti (A. Waberi); Ivory Coast (Tanella Boni); Lebanon (Venus Khoury-Ghata); Mauritius (Edouard Maunick, Khal Torabully); Morocco (Abdellatif Laâbi); Senegal (Babacar Sall, Lamine Sall) and Tunisia (Tahar Bekri, Chems Nadir, A Said).Patrick Williamson is an English poet, born in Madrid in 1960. His most recent poetry collection is Three Rivers / Trois Rivières (Harmattan, 2010). He has translated, among others, selected works by Tunisian poet Tahar Bekri and Québécois poet Gilles Cyr. He now lives near Paris.Table of ContentsPreface / 9 Introduction / 11 (ALGERIA) MOHAMMED DIB: Migrant / 21, The beast / 21, More than ever alive / 23, Thing / 23, River / 25 (ALGERIA) HABIB TENGOUR: Four times azure and five / 29, The water's edge / 29, The poem / 31 (CAMEROON) PAUL DAKEYO: Soweto, suns shot down (extracts) / 37, The song of silence (extracts) / 41 (CHAD) NIMROD: The cry of the bird / 55, Tibesti (extracts) / 55, Yet the Infanta of Salamanca - (extracts) / 57 (CONGO BRAZAVILLE) ALAIN MABANCKOU: When the cock announces the dawn of another day (extracts) / 67 (CONGO BRAZAVILLE) TCHICAYA U TAM'DI: Summary of a passion / 77 (extracts) (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO) KAMA SYWOR KAMANDA: In the silence of hearts / 85, The song of resistance / 85, The song of destiny / 87, Haunted houses / 89, The beating of the drums / 91 (DJIBOUTI) ABDOURAHMAN A. WABERI: Desires / 97, Truce / 97,Engravings / 97, Nomadic miniatures / 101, Untitled / 103, Tales of yesterday / 105 (IVORY COAST)TANELLA BONI: The gift still to come (four poems) / 111, Goree baobab island (four poems) / 113 (LEBANON) VENUS KHOURY-GHATA: The shades (extracts) / 121 (MAURITIUS) EDOUARD MAUNICK: I once was a tree / 131 (MAURITIUS) KHAL TORABULLY: Cantata for the child from Cana (extract) / 139, Les Indiades, Odes to Pessoa (extract) / 139, Dark light cast on Aapravisi Ghat (extract) / 141, Hold full of stars, Coolitude (extracts) / 143, Dialogue of water and salt (extracts) / 145, The red shadow of gazelles (extract) / 147 (MOROCCO) ABDELLATIF LAABI: Small clean slate (extracts) / 153, Shoulders and the burden (extracts) / 155 (SENEGAL) BABACAR SALL: Bed of sand (extracts) / 165 (SENEGAL)AMADOU LAMINE SALL: My country is not a dead country / 175 (TUNISIA) TAHAR BEKRI: Afghanistan / 183, Shade / 187, Dream at Trieste / 187, The Fisherman of Moons / 189 (TUNISIA) SHAMS NADIR: The other Sindbad (extracts) / 197, Echoes of Isla Negra / 203 (TUNISIA) AMINA SAID: "each day the sun... " / 207, "the mothers sleep..." / 209, "from our birth place..." / 213 About the translators / 217
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Arc Publications Six Armenian Poets
Book SynopsisThis book is also available as an ebook: buy it from Amazon here.The latest anthology in Arc's 'New Voices from Europe and Beyond' series features the work of six of Armenia's poets – three men, Anatoli Hovhannisyan, Khachik Manoukyan and Hrachya Saroukhan and three women, Violet Grigorian, Azniv Sahakyan and Hasmik Simonian. Together they have all helped to shape the face of contemporary Armenian poetry.Of the six, Grigorian and Hovhannisyan originally began writing in the age of Stalin, only becoming more visible and appreciated since independence. Saroukhan, Sahakyan and Manoukyan established themselves in post-Stalin Soviet Armenia, while the youngest poet, Hasmik Simonian, is a writer of the new Armenia, out of the shadow of the Soviet past. This is a bi-lingual edition, with the Armenian original and the English translation on facing pages.Razmik Davoyan is the unofficial Armenian poet laureate, and recipient of the President's Prize for Literature (2003). Widely published in Armenian, Russian and Czech, his collections in English are Selected Poems (Macmillan, 2002) and Whispers and Breath of the Meadows (Arc, 2010).Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface, Introduction, Hrachya Saroukhan, Biography "A raindrop - " / 21 "Once - " / 21 Unfinished Autumnal Lines / 23 "There was nothing beyond my voice - " / 31 And Since - / 31 Impression / 33 "A Call to Enter a Dream - " / 33 Violet Grigorian Elegy / 41 1993 / 43 "Sparkling wine saved for a dark hour - " / 45 Death's Bride / 47 Khachik Manoukyan, Biography "Cursed are - " / 57 Past / 57 Desert / 59 Nocturnal Sketch / 59 Prisoner / 61 "A meagre lone candle - " / 63 "I searched for you in the waves - " / 63 A Wounded Cross / 63 Azniv Sahakyan, Biography "Spring is a throb of blue - " / 75 "The flowers are singing - " / 75 "I was chewing on my heart to soften it - " / 77 "The abyss in my room is growing deeper - " / 77 The quiver of the water is red/ 79 Autumn was descending / 79, Darkness of the shadow of my voice /81, Deaf is the leech of night/ 81, Leaves, speaking of the delaying rains... /81, The black birds of the lines.../83, Perhaps I am stone.../83, The words are seeking torches.../83, Like a tree that blossoms and thins nicely.../85, In the snows of my heart../85 The moon over the street like a billboard.../87 Anatoli Hovhannisyan Biography/ I seek myself../ A line of poetry... / A lost day on the calendar.../ the wind has burnt its lips.../ You are asleep.../ I am lost in your breathless eyes.../ I'm a fainting river.../ The trees are alone.../ Emptiness is filled with screams of fear.../ I am all you have in life.../ I'm a fishing net... / "I keep repeating my name - " /"I live in anticipation - " / "I am alone - " / "Torn pieces of a painting - " / "Dust - " /"The snow in the twilight - " / When the Wound Turns into a Corn / "An animal carcass, barely visible - " / "I have woken - " / Hasmik Simonian Biography "In the solace of a white silence - " / hello / "Days were smoking cigarettes - " / to mary / "among the autumns opening-shrinking like an accordion - " /
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Arc Publications Bones Will Crow: An Anthology of Burmese Poetry
Book SynopsisBones Will Crow is the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poets in any language, and includes the work of Burmese poets in exile, in prison and undercover. Introduced by Zeyar Lynn, with a Preface by Ruth Padel.The poets featured are Tin Moe (1933-2007), Thitsar Ni (b. 1946), Aung Cheimt (b. 1948), Ma Ei (b. 1948), Maung Chaw Nwe (1949-2002), Maung Pyiyt Min (b. 1953), Khin Aung Aye (b. 1956), Zeyar Lynn (b. 1958), Maung Thein Zaw (b. 1959), Moe Zaw (b. 1964), Moe Way (b. 1969), Ko Ko Thett (b. 1972), Eaindra (b. 1973), Pandora (b. 1974) and Maung Yu Py (b. 1981).James Byrne's second poetry collection, Blood/Sugar, was published by Arc in 2009. He is the co-editor of Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century (Bloodaxe, 2009). Ko Ko Thett left Burma following detention for his role in the Rangoon student uprising in 1996. His first collection in English, The Burden of Being Bama, is forthcoming.Trade ReviewPoems like these demand a response from the reader. There is no hiding or denying our call to respond to these poems in translation, which offer the opportunity to further understand ourselves in relation to another. The poems of Bones Will Crow exist in their own right and should be treated with the same deference that we afford poets who are more familiar and less complex. The contradictory and imposing forces that shape Burmese poetry continue to create an evolving poetics that courageously redefines and reasserts itself, both internally and externally, to the wider literate world. Saradha Soobrayen, Poetry Review 2012
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Dedalus Press If Ever You Go
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Luath Press Ltd Chuckies fir the Cairn: Poems in Scots and Gaelic
Book SynopsisScotland has built great literature out of its richly textured language. Like the stones bound together in a wall, the poets linkied here by location and shared language embody the beauty of their country and the passion 'pulsin through its heirt'. These Dumfries and Galloway poets, free in their own inimitable styles and approaches, are bound together by the unique culture of Scotland. Their poems help to raise the wall of that culture in the modern world.Trade Review'The poets Rab Wilson has gathered in this anthology represent and important and often neglected strand in contemporary Scottish poetry. Native Scots-speaking poets whose chosen language is distinct from English and expressive beyond the capacities of that sister-language, they are committed to their country, their place and the people who inhabit the world beside them. However, earthed and native as they are, there is nothing narrowing or oversimplified here.'- ALAN RIACHThe range and liveliness of the poems are a testament to the continuing vitality of the Scots language in Dumfries and Galloway- THE HERALDTable of ContentsIntroductionLIZ NIVENEfter Ye Cam Back Fae MalawiEatin LocustsIn Memoriam Solway HarvesterCometHearin A Sang Fae Ma BoatHinnieDOUG CURRANThe Basket MakersAye When Simmer CamInaThe Smiddy At The WhaupThe Silent HooseWalkin The Horses HameOn Cairnfield HeichtsAuld Time DancinFactory DeemsThe Men Frae Radio UlsterDAVID DOUGLASDancin FrogsDangerous WurdsIn A To?oerLiftinMaternityThe GiraffeHideyoshi RepliesJoes FieldKennin EinsteinPuffin BillyTam Bides HameJOHN BURNSBricht In The Licht O HeavenAbuin The Hill FuitsScliffs O LichtJohnny Maxwell DancesFriscoThe Boonds O HeavenThe Licht Aye-BidanKenshoThe Leafs Maun FaaUntitledJOSIE NEILLMe An Katie MorrisonThe WattergawHeritageMullwharcharMairi StuartOrra TinkTibbie LogieA Christmas PoemLament For MacDiarmidMakars WarslinHUGH BRYDENBalloonChappin Chairlie?FagsHis Faither's VoiceChipshop CheckmateMetaphor?Cryin In Ma BeerShavingIf Ah Could Talk Tae The AirtistsJOHN MANSONToun GraveyairdSounAuld Notes1903GellLoddan NeepsPleuanThe StirkReidmasachSan Martino Del CarsoDeid O NichtBleck Stane On Tap O A White StaneWILLIE NEILLThe Auld GrunnDrumbarchan MainsKailyard And AfterFirst Keek At A CorpHielant John 1930Fitsides Wi A Prood HizzieA Faur Cry Frae AuchinleckSeasonsThe Power Of AdvertisingA Celtic HistoryFaur Ahint Maun Follae FasterHertsawBETTY TINDALPreservin MemoriesGreen MossThe LetterThe SlaesGlimpsing The UnicornReelin Back The YearsJist A DomesticTurning Tae SangJoyfu SouchWalking The LineWinter GlaurP- P- P ?? ProstitutionANGUS MACMILLANBalla Samhach / Lown WaTha e sileadh an Leodhas / It Is Rainin In LewisGearan na cuilegeagan-mheanbh / The Midges' ComplaintToimhseachan / ConundrumFear-labhairt deireannach / The Hinmaist SpeikerUisge Beatha / Uisge BeathaDannsa 'san t-seomar-feitheamh / Dancin In The Waitin RoomCiste / KistGaelic HaikuHistorical ShortsTartan BriefsDEREK ROSSWaterloo Tower, New AbbeyStaunin StanesFirst GemmeMuseum O ScotlandHadrian?s WaDunbae RoadTideOriginsForest CottageDry Stane DykeRAB WILSONBigginExtract from The Ruba?iyat of Omar Khayyam: In ScotsThe National ConversationHeraclitusDiffugere NivesHeroesDumfounert Wi WunnerSomerfield Checkout Coonter #2Playin MacDiarmid At Scrabble
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Poets of the People's Journal: Newspaper Poetry
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Voices of Scotland: An Anthology of Scottish
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies The Last Good Year: New Writing Scotland 38
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Jacobean Parnassus: Scottish poetry from the
Book SynopsisA great deal of excellent poetry was composed in Scotland in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. In 1603, when James Stewart became also king of England and Ireland, several Scottish poets moved to London, and commented on events at Court. Others preferred to remain in their homeland, at a distance from the metropolis; and some who had gone south soon returned home. In addition to the perennial themes of love and religion, attention was given to topics such as national identity, foreign travel, civil society, monarchy, the good life, friendship, retreat, and the nature and language of literature itself. Poets faced the political and cultural challenges inherent in the novel concept of Great Britain in a variety of ways, and the thistle and the rose bloomed together in the Jacobean garden of verses.
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Salmon Poetry Honouring the Word: Celebrating Maurice Harmon
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Vagabond Voices Be the First to Like This: New Scottish Poetry
Book SynopsisThrow a stone in Edinburgh or Glasgow today and you'll hit a poet. The Scottish spoken word scene has exploded, reaching a level of popularity last seen in the late 1970s, another era, coincidentally, when the issue of Scottish self-determination was in the air. A generation of poets has emerged who have grown up in an age of change, political and technological, with the internet providing them not only with new ways of sharing writing - through their websites, podcasts, Twitter - but also in some cases with a subject too. The Sound of Youngish Scotland is the first attempt to capture the spirit of a diverse scene where every poet is their own movement - from McGuire's hilarious, Beat-inflected deconstructions of sexuality to MacGillivray's mystic tales of Scottish cowboys, equal parts MacDiarmid and McCarthy; from William Letford's building-site tales to Russell Jones' sci-fi poetry. It's a scene where you are just as liable to encounter ancient gods as you are video game characters. The Sound of Youngish Scotland features forty poets, mostly under-forty who have made Scotland their home. It's a survey, a yearbook, a celebration and a promise of things to come.
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Luath Press Ltd Earth
Book SynopsisJohn Hudson’s Earth is a beautiful exploration of our dependence on our planet. Through a variety of different poetic techniques, Hudson skilfully blends form and content in order to create a work of poetic genius. In Earth, Hudson asks the perennial question: What does it mean to be human?Trade ReviewThere’s intellectual energy at work and a rich frame of reference. There’s a sense of place that has both extent and depth. KENNETH WHITE Its economy is striking, vivid images conjured up in just a few words; the commonplace in counterpoint to the uncommon; well-worn figures of speech shining with new meaning; the profound rubbing up against the everyday and, in the process, teasing out unconsidered layers of meaning.LIZ THOMSON, BookBrunchI liked the underpinning rhythmic drive, the subtle half-rhymes, and the thought-provoking wit tinged with occasional sensuous/sensual imagery … the referencing to other cultures and belief-systems. You have got a winner of a collection there.ROGER ELKIN, former editor of Envoi magazine
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Arc Publications Six Georgian Poets
Book SynopsisSix Georgian Poets brings us the work of the most outstanding literary representatives of what has been dubbed 'the Gagarin Generation". Yuri Gagarin, the first astronaut who died tragically young, was an international celebrity and a hero of the Soviet Bloc. His space journey could be subversively interpreted not as one of the victories in the Cold War competition between two ideologically opposed superpowers, but as a daring breakout towards freedom. This generation of people born in an era of a growing resistance against the strictures of Soviet rule, a generation characterised by challenging the entrenched conformism of thought and action, is represented here by a diverse set of voices, each of which speaks out of an experience both personal and collective, giving us a rare insight into a culture and literature we need to know more about. The majority of the poems in this volume were translated in two workshops, the first of which was held in September 2014 in Tbilisi, Georgia, supported by the Georgian National Book Centre and the British Council, and the second in March 2015 in Aberystwyth, Wales, supported by Literature Across Frontiers. The workshop participants were: Alexandra Büchler, translator and director of Literature Across Frontiers; Nia Davies, poet, translator and Editor of Poetry Wales; Adham Smart, poet and translator; Stephen Watts, poet and translator; and Angela Jarman, editor at Arc Publications. The translators initially worked from literal translations supplied by the poets and others, but at both workshops they received help and advice from the playwright and translator, Davit Gabunia, whose contribution was invaluable. There are other poems included in this volume that were translated by individual translators outside the workshops. One such translator is Donald Rayfield, who was not part of either workshop; Stephen Watts and Adham Smart also completed a number of translations outside the workshop setting. Where this is the case, their names appear under the relevant translations. Poems where individual translators are not named were translated collaboratively by the workshop participants.
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Ward Wood Publishing Bedford Square: 6
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Ward Wood Publishing Articulus
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Salmon Poetry Over the Edge: The First Ten Years
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Eyewear Publishing Donald Langosy: Poet's Painter
Book SynopsisPoetry. Art. In this beautifully produced full-color art volume, poet Eric Sigler responds to 99 paintings by the legendary painter Donald Langosy. Donald Langosy and Eric Sigler. 99 poems by Eric Sigler illustrating 99 paintings. In this unique collaboration, painter Donald Langosy and poet Eric Sigler draw on a long friendship to create a fantastical world realised in images and words. Langosy''s vivid colours, dramatic uses of light and wide cast of characters combine to create artworks of great energy and interest, while Sigler layers the paintings with glimpses into an internal element, bringing them truly to life. Drawing on mythological elements, moments from history and religion, this is a multimedia work that delights all the senses.
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Eyewear Publishing The Best of British and Irish Poets: 2016
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Sidekick Books Bad Kid Catullus: 2
Book SynopsisHow well do you know Gaius Valerius Catullus, Ancient Rome's most notorious scandal-monger, filthsmith and lovelorn wretch? Impress your friends by having his muckiest quotes and most stinging jibes to hand at all times! In this customisable handbook, you'll find him at his most sexy, tender, savage and scurrilous, translated in myriad ways by Sidekick Books' many talented scribes. Catullus is seven genres; emoji Catullus; Catullus in Scots; poems sculpted into sex positions - and pages for you, the reader, to fill in, in your own obsene fashion.
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Sidekick Books Future Perfect Tense
Book SynopsisA thrilling new collection of genre-straddling stories and poems from graduates of one of the most exciting and eclectic creative writing MAs in the UK.
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The Rialto Cold Fire
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Two Rivers Press The Arts of Peace: An Anthology of Poems
Book SynopsisThe first of August nineteen-fourteen saw the beginning of the war that was to end all wars and which, instead, ushered in a century of armed conflicts, two of them described as global. This anthology’s title is borrowed from Andrew Marvell’s ‘Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’, in which he deprecates ‘the inglorious arts of peace’. With this gathering of newly composed poems, and against that grain, this anthology looks to celebrate all that is left behind in times of conflict and which conflict is so often evoked to defend. In this spirit, Adrian Blamires and Peter Robinson have edited a collection of poems that address peace and war from an unusually varied range of angles. The more than fifty contributors include Fleur Adcock, Robyn Bolam, Vahni Capildeo, Fred D’Aguiar, Gerald Dawe, Jane Draycott, Elaine Feinstein, Roy Fisher, Debora Greger, Philip Gross, Angela Leighton, William Logan, Allison McVety, Bill Manhire, John Matthias, Anthony Rudolf, Carol Rumens, Elizabeth Smither and Gregory Woods.
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GINGKO A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue between East &
Book SynopsisIn honour of Goethe and the 200th anniversary of the first publication of his outstanding poem sequence the West-Eastern Divan (1819), A New Divan contains outstanding original poems by twenty-four leading poets - twelve from the `East' and twelve from the `West' - and presents a truly international poetic dialogue inspired by the culture of the Other and Goethe's late, great work. The poets come from across the East - from Morocco to Turkey, Syria to Afghanistan - and from across the West - from Germany to the USA, Estonia to Brazil. Writing in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, and English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Slovenian, each pair of poets has responded to one of the themes of the twelve books of Goethe's original Divan, including `The Poet', `Love', `The Tyrant', `Faith' and `Paradise'. Working directly with the original poets or via a bridge translation the twenty-two English-language poets have created new poems that draw on the poetic forms and cultures of the poets taking part. Three pairs of essays enhance and complement the poems, mirroring Goethe's original `Notes and Essays for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan'. A New Divan is a life-enhancing, lyrical conversation at a time when understanding of the Other has never been more important. In celebrating Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, it also celebrates the art of poetry and the art of translation.Trade Reviewhttps://www.ft.com/content/d49e3b78-86df-11e9-b861-54ee436f9768; 'a multilingual delight', Ruth Padel, Financial Times Weekend; https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/a-new-divan-how-german-writer-goethe-is-still-inspiring-writers-through-a-new-project-1.865626
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Luath Press Ltd Independent Minds: New Poetry by HMP Kilmarnock
Book SynopsisThe political and civil criticism found in the poetry of Robert Burns has influenced readers for over two centuries. The emotional impact reached high levels when the poems were read by people who have lost their liberty, prisoners in HMP Kilmarnock. From the city which gave birth to Burns’ first poetry volume, a workshop within prison led to new inspired creations according to different personal backgrounds. Independence in these new poems is desired not only for Scotland, but also for contemporary slaves, war victims and immigrants. On a personal level, independence from substances and mental illness is also at stake; because the worst enemy often fought against, is our own self. This collection includes the original sources of inspiration, beloved poems by Burns. Among them, To a Mouse, A Man’s A Man for A’ That, and Tree of Liberty. The poems are accompanied by images of Burns’ manuscripts and paintings from the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum. A moving and impressive collection from independent minds being nostalgic about the carefree past or wondering whether liberty was ever acquired.
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Luath Press Ltd Scotia Nova: Poems for the Early Days of a Better
Book Synopsisthere’ll be nae cries omiseryjist the creakin souno openin doorsRead these poems and be inspired.In the wake of the 1979 Devolution Referendum, followed by the impact of Thatcherite policies on Scottish society, many Scottish writers and intellectuals began articulating the distinctiveness of Scottish literary, cultural, social and political traditions and outlooks. Some joined popular political campaigns, from opposing the Poll-Tax and Trident to the Campaign for a Scottish Assembly, which led to a Scottish Parliament. Many now look forward to new possibilities for the future with more confidence in the value and importance of our country’s culture and politics, as these poems reveal.Whatever the outcome of Scotland’s Independence Referendum on 18 September 2014, a better Scotland is possible. Across every aspect of life in Scotland – housing, inequality, life expectancy, health, education, crime, sectarianism, localism and more – we all know that a better Scotland is possible. And then there’s Trident. And the Bedroom Tax. And the Democratic Deficit. And on it goes.Trade ReviewThis is a confident, upbeat collection, drawing on shared history and language... invoking the ghosts of Hugh MacDiarmid, Margo MacDonald, Naomi Mitchison, Burns and Lenin. - ANDY CROFT, Morning Star The majority of the poems are successful. At its strongest moments it is a testament to the richness of Scottish poetry, and serves as a detailed snapshot of the nation. - MICHAEL GRIEVE, The Saint
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Tangent Books Maths Poems: Exploring The Interdisciplinary
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The Emma Press Urban Myths and Legends: Poems about
Book SynopsisUrban Myths and Legends is a lively collection of poems by modern poets who have taken inspiration from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The poems all tell stories which include a transformation – some inspired directly by the Metamorphoses and some completely new and of our time. Wings sprout, leaves fall and no state is certain, as the poets channel Ovid’s mischief and whisper tales of just and unjust deserts.
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The Emma Press In Transit: Poems of Travel
Book SynopsisTravelling from one place to another is never as simple as getting from A to B. Whether you’re sailing in a stately cruise liner or running for a grimy commuter train, your mode of transport affects the way you look at the things around you. Travel can even make us question who we are at home: will we be the same person at the other end of the journey?The poems in this anthology look at the ways in which travelling can change us, whether we enjoy or endure it. They take in not only day-trippers and business travellers, but characters who are forced to voyage against their will, as well as those with no choice but to stay put. Whatever your destination, this book is a companion for the journey, exploring the nuances of the strange state of being in transit.
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Five Leaves Publications A Modern Don Juan: Cantos for These Times by
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Dedalus Press A Different Eden
Book SynopsisIn dialogue with each other and our environment, some 40 contemporary poets from Ireland and Galicia (among them Paddy Bushe, Olga Novo, Michael Longley, Paula Meehan, Luz Pichel, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Xavier Queipo and Grace Wells) speak from the Atlantic edge of Europe, from the wild some might say, to the very heart of the matter: our damaged and threatened world. Carefully tending to our fragile ecosystem, this timely bilingual anthology of Irish and Galician poems asks how we live in this world, how we celebrate our intimate relationship with all living things. There is a sense of urgency here, of the need for action - and the need to move ''from ego to eco.'' Whether casting the bones or skylarking, these poems range across language and borders tracing every foot print, every paw print and every flight path through our shared world in the belief that A Different Eden is possible.
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Shoestring Press Poems for Jeremy Corbyn
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Arc Publications The Lonely Funeral
Book SynopsisEvery year, a large number of people living in our towns and cities - the homeless, suicides, illegal immigrants, junkies, drug 'mules', victims of crime and, above all, old people living alone - are found dead. Sometimes, they are not discovered for weeks or months, and it is often hard to ascertain who they are. Their funerals are held without relatives or friends and acquaintances being present; the only people in attendance are the pall-beares, perhaps someone from the Department of Social Services, the cemetery management and the funeral director. In Amsterdam in 2002, the poet and artist F Starik, deeply moved by the desolation of these solitary funerals, initiated 'The Lonely Funeral' project and seven years later in Antwerp, the Flemish poet Maarten Inghels set up a project of the same name. The idea of the project was to establish a network of poets who would write a personal poem for the deceased person based on research into their life and read it out at their funeral as an affirmation of their existence. To date, well over 300 'lonely funerals' have been attended by poets in both cities and volumes of prose and poetry about some of these forgotten lives have been published in Amsterdam and Antwerp respectively. Arc Publications, together with the Viennese publisher Edition Korrespondezen and the editor Stefan Wieczorek, have made a selection of prose and poems about 31 'forgotten lives' from these two anthologies. What is known of, or can be found out about, each individual's life and manner of death is set out in a moving prose piece which also describes the funeral itself - for the Amsterdam funerals this is written by F. Starik and for the Antwerp funerals by Maarten Inghels - and this is followed by the poem for the deceased, with 20 of the Netherlands' and Flanders' leading poets being represented. This is by turns a moving, shocking and very necessary volume: poets are not social workers but they do have the power to change attitudes to society's outcasts. These last salutations to people the poet has never known and never will, whose lives at the end were invisible, remind us that we are a community and that we have responsibility for each other, even after death. As F. Starik writes in his preface to the book: "We do not know to whom we say goodbye, so we feel no pain. But everyone - and this is the point - every person deserves respect."
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Smith|Doorstop Books All My Important Nothings
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Modern Poetry in Translation One Thousand Suns: MPT No. 2: 2016
Book SynopsisMPT's summer issue 'One Thousand Suns' focuses on poetry from African languages, with a selection of new translations of Senegalese poet Mama Seck Mbacke, Beninese Agnes Agboton and an interview with Equatorial Guinean Ricaredo Silebo Boturu. The African focus also includes an essay by poet and playwright Inua Ellams on translation, his Nigerian heritage and reworking The Tempest into Nigerian pidgen. We feature new translations of Hafez by UK poet Mario Petrucci and Jane Draycott's poem 'The Occupant', a response to the classic Dutch modernist text 'Awater'. Read Jan Wagner's new poems in Iain Galbraith's prizewinning translation, Hindi poet Geet Chaturvedi and Romanian Nora Iuga's surreal poetry - all in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation. For the best in world poetry read MPT.
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Modern Poetry in Translation A A Blossom Shroud: MPT No. 2 2017
Book SynopsisMPT's summer issue `A Blossom Shroud' focuses on poets and translators associated with this year's Shubbak festival of Arab Culture in London and it publishes a selection of new translations of poets appearing at the festival: Mona Kareem, Dunya Mikhail, and a new long sequence of poems by Golan Haji, translated by Stephen Watts. The focus also includes a conversation between Alice Guthrie, Shubbak's literary producer, and poet, translator and activist Mona Kareem, who has led the campaign to get Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh freed from a charge of apostasy in Saudi Arabia. Also featured are new translations of Hisham Bustani, Najwan Darwish and Syrian actor and activist Fadwa Souleiman. This stunning work from the Arab world appears alongside documentary poems by Chinese poet Shen Haobo on the AIDS villages of China, new translations of Rilke's French poetry by Paul Batchelor, poet Katrina Naomi's translations of Mexican poet Yohanna Jaramillo and Golan Haji's selection of the Kurdish poets we should all be reading. All in this new issue of the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.
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Modern Poetry in Translation P Profound Pyromania: MPT no.1 2018
Book SynopsisMPT’s spring issue ’Profound Pyromania’ features a focus on Caribbean poetry, including new translations from James Noel, Legna Rodriguez Iglesias, Monchoachi, Frankétienne, Pierre Lauffer and Lalbihari Sharma’s Holi Songs of Demerara; poems in English creoles from Raymond Antrobus and Fawzia Muradali Kane, and an essential conversation between Shivanee Ramlochan and Rajiv Mohabir about `polyglottal inheritance’, divinity and the diaspora. Also in this issue: exquisite translations of Jacques Tornay by Annie Freud; the `late work’ of Heiner Müller, and a spotlight on three Baltic poets, featuring stunning new poems by Tomas Venclova, Kārlis Vērdiņš and Maarja Kangro. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.
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Modern Poetry in Translation I In a Winter City: MPT No. 3 2018
Book SynopsisMPT’s autumn issue `In a Winter City’ marks the 20th anniversary of our co-founder Ted Hughes’ death, with responses to his translations by Tara Bergin, Zaffar Kunial and Polly Clark. We also fulfil his plan to have a Hungarian focus, with new translations of work by Krisztina Tóth, Agota Kristof and András Gerevich, as well as Margit Kaffka’s forgotten feminist masterpiece `While We Wait for Sunrise, 23rd May 1912’. Also in this issue: a stunning translation of Simone Atangana Bekona by David Colmer, poems by Mona Arshi after the Mahabharata, and Chris McCabe brings Villon into the 21st Century. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.
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Modern Poetry in Translation O Our Small Universe
Book SynopsisMPT’s spring issue ’Our Small Universe’ focuses on the many languages of the United Kingdom - from Romani to Welsh; Shetlandic to BSL; Turkish to Ulster Scots – and features Owen Sheers, Zoe Brigley, Liz Berry, MacGillivray, David Morley, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi and Matthew Hollis. Cyril Jones and Philip Gross collaborate using the Welsh `englyn’ form, and Sophie Herxheimer writes in her Grandmother’s `Inklisch’. Also: an introduction to Rohingya poetry, Zeina Hashem Beck’s bilingual form, the Duet, and a new translation of Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński’s major modernist poem `A Trip to Świder’ by Renata Senktas and Christopher Reid. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.
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Modern Poetry in Translation T The Illuminated Path: MPT No.2 2019
Book SynopsisMPT’s summer issue ’The Illuminated Paths’ focuses on emerging poets of the Maghreb, with poems written in Arabic, Arabic dialect and Tamazight, and translated as part of the British Council’s Majaaz project by Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Martha Sprackland, Adham Smart, Vidyan Ravinthiran and Stewart Sanderson. Also: an introduction to Dalit poetry curated by Gopika Jadeja, Judith Wilkinson’s translations of Toon Tellegen, Maria Stepanova’s `weird ballads’, and Michèle Lalonde’s searing `anti-imperialist cri de coeur’: `Speak White’. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.
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Modern Poetry in Translation D Dream Colours: MPT No.1 2020
Book SynopsisMPT’s spring issue ‘Dream Colours’ focuses on Japan, featuring two of Japan’s most popular post-war poets, Shuntaro Tanikawa and Noriko Ibaragi; new work by Sawako Nakayasu; an essay by Polly Barton on the complications of translating Japanese concrete poetry; and a poetic manifesto regarding dreams from the surrealist Shuzo Takiguchi (1903–1979). Also featured: Chris Beckett introduces the young Ethiopian poet Misrak Terefe; Kit Fan translates Bei Dao’s ‘June’ in the light of Hong Kong’s recent protests; and a tribute to Elaine Feinstein’s translations of Marina Tsvetaeva by Sasha Dugdale. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.
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Modern Poetry in Translation O Origins of the Fire Emoji: MPT no. 3 2020
Book SynopsisMPT’s autumn issue, ‘Origins of the Fire Emoji’, has a focus guest-edited by the Dead [Women] Poets Society, and will bring voices from all corners of the world back to life. From Enheduanna, a high priestess from ancient Mesopotamia who is the first recorded poet, to Suzannah Evans’ essay on ‘Resurrecting’ Nadia Anjuman, via Sappho, Hồ Xuân Hương, Marina Tsvetaeva, Lakshmi Holmström, Noémia de Sousa and many more, you are invited to join the séance. Also featured: Ali Al-Jamri’s new translation of Aboul Qassem Al-Shaabi’s influential poem ‘The Desire of Life’. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT
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Modern Poetry in Translation C Clean Hands: MPT no.1 2021
Book SynopsisMPT’s spring issue ‘Clean Hands’ focuses on the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe, featuring the Stanza/MPT Windowswap Project; a conversation between Simone Atangana Bekono and Jay Bernard about the language of lockdown; and new poems and translations from across the continent including Jan Wagner, Stella N'Djoku, David Harsent, Safiye Can, David Constantine, Agnes Agboton, and many others. Also: an introduction to Uyghur poetry curated by Munawwar Abdulla, Naush Sabah’s version of ‘Qasida Burda’, and climate change poems by Marion Poschmann, translated by Jen Calleja. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.
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Modern Poetry in Translation I If No One Names Us: MPT No.2 2021
Book SynopsisMPT’s summer issue ‘If No One Names Us‘ focuses on Mexico, and includes new translations of legendary figures such as Pita Amor and Nahui Olin, as well as contemporary poets including Natalia Toledo, Elena Poniatowska, Tedi López Mills and Mikeas Sanchez, and contributions from British LatinX poets including Juana Adock and Leo Boix. Also: poems in response to CK Norwid’s centenary, a new translation of Jacques Jacques Brel’s ‘Amsterdam’, Endre Ruset’s concrete elegies for those who died in the terrorist attack at Utøya, and ‘Butterfly Valley’, a gorgeous sonnet redoublé by Inger Christensen. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.
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Modern Poetry in Translation S Slap-Bang: MPT no.3 2021
Book SynopsisMPT’s autumn issue ’Slap-Bang’ focuses on German-language poetry, and features contemporary poets such as Ulrike Almut Sandig, Özlem Özgül Dündar, Nora Gomringer and Esther Kinsky, alongside new translations of Hilde Domin, Friedrich Hölderlin, Nelly Sachs, Günter Eich and Else Lasker-Schüler. Sophie Seita translates a new ‘Guessay’ by Uljana Wolf, whilst Will Stone explores an AI translation of Rilke. Also: Suna Afshan on the ‘Tape Letters’ project, Helen Calcutt’s translations of the young Afghan poet Aryan Ashory, and reviews curated by our Ledbury Poetry Critics reviewer-in-residence Shash Trevett. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.
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Modern Poetry in Translation The Fingers of Our Soul: MPT No.1 2022
Book SynopsisMPT’s spring issue, ’The Fingers of Our Soul‘, includes a focus on bodies guest edited by Khairani Barokka and Jamie Hale, featuring signed languages such as ASL, BSL, LSF and BISINDO, Anthony Price’s translation using the medium of eye-gaze, and Salma Harland on the blind poet al-Maʿarrī. Poetic forms include dagli from Filipino poet Stefani J Alvarez and the picture-poems from Hoshino Tomihiro. Also: long poems from Geet Chaturvedi and Shooka Hosseini, Andrew Nielsen’s version of Du Fu in tribute to Roddy Lumsden, and Dzifa Benson reviews Maria Stepanova’s War of the Beasts and Animals. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.
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Modern Poetry in Translation The Previous Song: MPT no. 2 2022
Book SynopsisMPT’s summer issue, ’The Previous Song: Focus on Somali Poetry’ includes new poems by Asmaa Jama and Hibaq Osman, translations of Amran Maxamed Axmed and Xasan Daahir Ismaaciil ‘Weedhsame’, an introduction to the lyrics of Qaraami - the popular music of Somali culture - and Ayan Salaad’s translations of Ali Osman Drog’s womens’ songs. Also: new translations of Tove Ditlevsen, Meret Oppenheim and Mona Kareem, poems in response to the invasion of Ukraine, and Olivia McCannon translates Louky Bersianik’s Cold War sequence ‘Ruins of the Future’. All this and more in the ground-breaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.
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