Modern Poetry in Translation
Episodes
One Night I Will Return to My Birthplace: Read by the poet, Majid Naficy, and Elizabeth T Gray Jr
15 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
MAJID NAFICY Majid Naficy was born in Isfahan, Iran, in 1952 and currently lives in West Los Angeles, California. Raised in a large and well- educated...
The Voronezh Variations: seven translations of an Osip Mandelstam quatrain, by George Szirtes
28 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948, and came to England with his family after the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. He was educated in England, traini...
'In Lampedusa' by Ribka Sibhatu: read by Niyat Remedy Asfaha, translated by André Naffis-Sahely
05 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This poem is published in MPT ‘The Great Flight’ focusses on refugee poetry – poetry by refugees and about the plight of refugees and migrants. ...
Centres of Cataclysm - launching the MPT anthology
30 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This recording was made on 5th May 2016 at Kings College London, at an event celebrating the launch of MPT's anniversary anthology, Centres of Catacly...
Alexander Hutchison reads his Scots translation of Ernesto Cardenal
08 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
ALEXANDER HUTCHISON'S most recent collection, Bones & Breath (Salt, 2013) won the inaugural Saltire Award for Poetry Book of the Year.
It's all in the nuances: a reading and discussion with Mexican poet Pedro Serrano
25 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
PEDRO SERRANO has published five collections of poems. He co-edited and co-translated the groundbreaking anthology The Lamb Generation which brought t...
Choman Hardi - 'Homeland, what shall I do with you?'
25 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Choman Hardi, interview at The Queens College Oxford. CHOMAN HARDI was born in Iraqi Kurdistan. She came to England as a refugee in 1993. She has pub...
50 years of MPT: International Translation Day 2015 with Sasha Dugdale, Helen and David Constantine
05 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Modern Poetry in Translation Magazine (MPT) celebrates fifty years between July 2015 and July 2016 with a programme of special events and publications...
Michael Rosen and Marina Boroditskaya: Out of the Crocodile's Mouth
17 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast was recorded at the launch of MPT ‘I WISH...' and features Michael Rosen and Marina Boroditskaya in conversaiton with MPT Editor, Sasha...
David Constantine: on poetry translation and the cultural habitat
09 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast was recorded in July 2015 at a special celebration to mark the opening of MPT's 50th year and 12 months of events, publications and speci...
Scorched Glass: Iranian Poetry at Poetry International 2015
02 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
MPT’s Spring Issue 'Scorched Glass' focussed on Iranian poetry. In July 2015 we held a series of events celebrating Iranian Poetry at Poetry Interna...
Launching MPT 'Scorched Glass' with Tedi López Mills at the Poetry Library
29 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
TEDI LÓPEZ MILLS Tedi López Mills was born in Mexico City in 1959. She studied philosophy at the Mexican National University and literature at the...
Amarjit Chandan: to the fallen soldiers of the First World War
27 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
AMARJIT CHANDAN Amarjit Chandan was born in Nairobi in 1946 and studied in India at Panjab University, coming to Britain in 1980 to live in London. He...
THE SOMALI-ENGLISH POETRY COLLECTIVE: "I am Somali"
15 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The Somali-English Poetry Collective The Somali-English Poetry Collective is a group of five women: Abyan Cusmaan, Jawaahir Daahir, Karin Koller, Idi...
Nikola Madzirov and Peggy Reid: from the launch of MPT 'The Constellation'
18 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
NIKOLA MADZIROV Nikola Madzirov is a Macedonian poet, essayist, translator and editor. His poetry has been translated into over 30 languages. He won ...
Who knows what Daphne really wanted? Sujata Bhatt, writing after Rilke
17 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
SUJATA BHATT Sujata Bhatt’s Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2013) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Her new collection, Poppies in Translat...
Torso of Polyphemus: Karen Leeder on Durs Grünbein and Rilke at Poetry International
17 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
KAREN LEEDER Karen Leeder is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in German at New College, Oxford....
In each person there exists a sheer drop: Christine Marendon and Ken Cockburn
17 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
CHRISTINE MARENDON Christine Marendon lives in Hamburg where she works with children with special needs. Her poems feature in anthologies including J...
What day knits, night forgets: Ana Martins Marques read by Julia Sanches
14 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
ANA MARTINS MARQUES Ana Martins Marques has published two books of poetry: A vida submarina (Scriptum, 2009) and Da arte das armadilhas (Companhia das...
Feminism, the internet and Brazilian poetry: Angélica Freitas and Hilary Kaplan
28 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded at the Brighton festival, Angélica and Hilary read two poems in English and Portuguese, and answer questions from two GCSE students. ANGELI...
Paulo Leminski - concretism and counterculture from Brazil
11 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Paulo Leminski (1944-1989) was a writer of prose, poetry, literary criticism and translation. His first publications appeared in Invenção, a journal...
Kim Hyesoon - reading at the Poetry Library
15 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This recording was made at the Saison Poetry Library, a public event that formed part of the British Council's Korea Market Focus at the London Book F...
Ciaran Carson - a reading and discussion from translator and poet Seán Hewitt
02 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Seán Hewitt reads and discusses his translation of Ciaran Carson's only published poem in Irish. Seán Hewitt was born 1990, read E...
Wojciech Bonowicz gives an introduction to contemporary Polish Poetry
24 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Wojciech Bonowicz is a poet, a columnist and an editor and an author of six poetry volumes. The most recent is 'Polish Signs' (2010). His volume 'High...
Transparenting: vanishing in Krystyna Miłobędzka's poetry. (Polish Focus, 'Secret Agents of Sense')
08 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese reads a six-word poem by Krystyna Miłobędzka in English and Polish, then discusses her arrival at the word 'transparenting' ...
On Justyna Bargielska - reading and conversation with Maria Jastrzębska
08 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A reading of Polish poet Justyna Bargielska's 'Two mirrors, one of which magnifies' from Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese and the English translation from Mari...
Claudiu Komartin and Stephen Watts
30 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Claudiu Komartin, born in 1983, is a Romanian poet and translator. His fourth book, Cobalt, came out in May 2013. Between 2011–2012 he was resident ...
Mihaela Moscaliuc
30 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of Father Dirt (Kinereth Gensler Award, Alice James Books in 2010) and co-translator of Carmelia Leonte’s Death Sear...
Oana Sanziana Marian
29 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Oana Sanziana Marian was born in Romania and moved to the Us when she was eight. She has published poems, translations, articles and criticism in Phon...
Shash Trevett
06 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Shash Trevett, now living in York, came to the U.K. from Sri Lanka in 1987 to escape the civil war. For many years she stopped speaking and writing in...
Fiona Sze-Lorrain reads her translation of Zhang Zao's 'Mirror'
04 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Fiona is a poet, translator from Chinese, and a musician. “an extraordinary musician who brings into her zheng music a strong cross-cultural unders...
Chris Beckett
04 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Beckett was born in London but grew up mostly in Ethiopia. His poetry been published in Ambit, Envoi, Magma, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetr...
Frances Leviston
04 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Frances Leviston’s Public Dream was published by Picador in 2007 and shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for Best First Collectio...
Ester Naomi Perquin
04 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Ester Naomi Perquin is winner of the VSB Poetry Award in the Netherlands for her recent Celinspecties (Cell Inspections). Translated by the renowned P...
Menno Wigman
04 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Menno Wigman, shortlisted for the VSB Poetry Prize for his collection Mijn naam is Legioen (My Name is Legion), is one of Holland's most prominent wri...
Toon Tellegen
04 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Toon Tellegen is one of the best known writers in the Netherlands. Multi-award winning and with more than 20 collections of poetry to date, he is also...
Talking Vrouz: Valérie Rouzeau and Susan Wicks
04 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Valérie Rouzeau's latest collection, Vrouz, has just won the prestigious Prix Apollinaire in France. She has published a dozen collections, including...