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  • EDITORIAL

    Clare Pollard

    The thing I fear most is diminishment. It is a particular horror to be alive right now, in this Sixth Great Extinction, one of the only humans in all of history to see our skies emptied; our coral bleach to bones; our forests razed.[...]

  • Fernando valverde

    From 'Shootings'

    Fernando Valverde

    I will not be the one to shoot
    it will be another man
    or devil
    who takes aim

    Translated by Carolyn Forché

  • Mikeas Sánchez

    What is it Worth?

    Mikeas Sánchez

    Those masters of barbarity tell us:
    I’ll give you a millionaire’s bank account,
    in exchange for your blue sky,
    I’ll build you a nice supermarket

    Translated by Wendy Call

  • Pepsi Cola

    Hubert Matiúwàa

    One Sunday a man arrived
    to sell black water
    that glistened like a riverstone.

    Translated by Juana Adcock

  • Songs from Ammassalik

    Greenlandic songs

    Do not tell me
    that words alone will stop my destruction
    that words alone will stop me from vanishing.

    Translated by Nancy Campbell

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13th November 2019

We, Modern Poetry in Translation, declare a Climate and Ecological Emergency.

Crossing Borders with Books – Being Human | Thursday 21 November, London

29th October 2019

Join us at Crossing Borders with Books, part of Being Human Festival, to hear publishers, editors, academics and published translators discuss poetry in translation.

Features

A Thousandfold Loving

24th November 2019

Derick Mattern reviews Pomegranate Garden by Haydar Ergülen, edited by Mel Kenne, Saliha Paker, and Caroline Stockford, Parthian, 2019.

Interrupting Mortality

24th October 2019

Theophilus Kwek reviews ‘The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes’ by Lieke Marsman, translated by Sophie Collins, Liverpool University Press, 2019.

HAMMER ON

16th September 2019

Annie Fan reviews ‘The Hammer and Other Poems’ by Adelaide Ivánova, translated by Rachel Long and Francisco Vilhena, Poetry Translation Centre, 2019

Latest Issue

Issue Number 3 2019

MPT’s autumn issue ‘I Have Not Known a Grief Like This’ focuses on Extinction, with a roundtable about endangered languages, chaired by Chris McCabe and including Recaredo Boturu, Joy Harjo, Nineb Lamassu, Valzhyna Mort, Vaughan Rapatahana and Zubair Torwali. It also includes new translations of Greenland’s Songs from Ammasalik by Nancy Campbell, a Pacific feature, and poems about endangered ecosystems around the world, from Brazil to Eritrea. Also featured: Fernando Valverde’s sequence ‘SHOOTINGs’ translated by Carolyn Forché, and Elhum Shakerifar, Will Harris, Amy Key and Martha Sprackland translate Iranian film into poetry. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.Subscribe for just £23Learn more

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