Modern Poetry in Translation

Poetry Collection

Archived since Introductions

Modern Archive

58 issues

Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT) is a biannual poetry magazine that publishes poetry from all over the world in English translation. Founded in 1965 by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort it has consistently published the very best of world poetry in the very best translations, and has introduced a number of famous poets and iconic translations to the English-speaking world.

MPT prints work of unsurpassed range and quality. Over the last decade it has featured over 90 languages, 463 poets and 349 translators. Boyd Tonkin in The Independent wrote that MPT ‘has a rare and precious talent’. The Sunday Times called it a ‘necessity’. There is no other magazine that has the same reach and the same consistent quality of poetry.

Latest Issue:

MPT’s issue At the Gate of Exile: Focus on Archives looks back at the sixty-year history of Modern Poetry in Translation, with essays by Ottilie Mulzet, Vidyan Ravinthiran, James Appleby, Mayada Ibrahim, Mantra Mukim, Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng and Rishi Dastidar – alongside a selection of new translations of poetry from Korean, Hungarian, Catalan, Norwegian, Spanish, Icelandic, German, Danish, Chinese, Indonesian, and much more.

Cover artwork by Justin Moore

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