Modern Poetry in Translation
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Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT) is a tri-annual 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 November issue ‘Your Language Anticipating Mine’ spotlights Catalan poetry featuring Ronald Puppo’s translations of Tònia Passola and Josep Checa; Lourdes Manyé and Wayne Cox’s translation of Miquel Martí i Pol; Clyde Moneyhun’s translations of Maria Mercè Marçal and Maria Antònia Salvà; Marialena Carr’s translations of Felícia Fuster and Anna Crowe’s translation of Josep Lluís Aguiló. Also, Aidan Rooney translates the extraordinary Jean D’Amérique, JP Allen translates Clementina Suárez, ‘the legendary matriarch of Honduran letters’ and Astrid Alben translates the ‘grotesque and absurdist’ poems of Eric Solvanger. All this and much more in the new issue of the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation.
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