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Origins of the Fire Emoji, 2020 Number 3

MPT’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, […]

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The World for a Moment, 2020 Number 2

MPT’s summer issue ‘The World for a Moment’ focuses on Czech Poetry, and features... Look inside Sold out

Dream Colours, 2020 Number 1

MPT’s spring issue ‘Dream Colours’ focuses on Japan, featuring two of Japan’s most popular post-war poets, Shuntaro Tanikawa and... Look inside Buy print issue

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I Have Not Known a Grief Like This, 2019 Number 3

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... Look inside Buy print issue

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The Illuminated Paths, 2019 Number 2

MPT’s summer issue ’The Illuminated Paths’ focuses on emerging poets of the Maghreb, with poems written in Arabic, Arabic dialect and... Look inside Buy print issue

MPT Our Small Universe: Focus on Languages of the United Kingdom

Our Small Universe, 2019 Number 1

MPT’s spring issue ’Our Small Universe’ focuses on the many languages of the United Kingdom - from Romani to... Look inside Buy print issue

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In a Winter City, 2018 Number 3

MPT’s autumn issue ‘In a Winter City’ marks the 20th anniversary of our co-founder Ted Hughes’ death, with responses to his... Look inside Buy print issue

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The House of Thirst, 2018 Number 2

MPT’s summer issue ‘The House of Thirst’ focuses on LGBTQ+ poetry, and includes translations of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Else Lasker-Schüler, Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Friedrich Chernyshov’s urgent poems about transgender lives in... Look inside Sold out

MPT Profound Pyromania

Profound Pyromania, 2018 Number 1

MPT’s spring issue 'Profound Pyromania' features a focus on Caribbean poetry, including new translations from James Noel, Legna Rodriguez Iglesias, Monchoachi, Frankétienne... Look inside Buy print issue

War of the Beasts and the Animals, 2017 Number 3

MPT’s autumn issue ‘War of the Beasts and the Animals’ focuses on Ukrainian and Russian poetry, with a selection of new translations of Ukrainian poets writing about the war in the Donbas, including the... Look inside Buy print issue

A Blossom Shroud, 2017 Number 2

MPT’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 Look inside Buy print issue

MPT The Shattered Throat: Focus on the Languages of India

Songs of the Shattered Throat, 2017 Number 1

MPT’s new issue ‘Songs of the Shattered Throat’ focuses on poetry in the languages of India, with a selection of new translations of Tulsidas, Monika Kumar, Kutti Revathi, Joy Goswami... Look inside Buy print issue

MPT The Blue Vein: Focus on Korean Poetry

The Blue Vein, 2016 Number 3

MPT’s winter issue 'The Blue Vein' focuses on a new wave of Korean poetry, with a selection of new translations of Korea’s foremost poets Kim Hyesoon and Ko Un, poems by Han Kang who won last year’s Man Booker International Prize for her... Look inside Buy print issue

One Thousand Suns, 2016 Number 2

MPT’s summer issue ‘One Thousand Suns’ focuses on poetry from African languages, with a selection of new translations of Senegalese poet Mama Seck Mbacké, Beninese Agnès Agboton and... Look inside Buy print issue

The Great Flight, 2016 Number 1

‘The Great Flight’ focusses on refugee poetry – poetry by refugees and about the plight of refugees and migrants. It introduces us to a range of new work by renowned poets, including Eritrean Ribka Sibhatu... Look inside Sold out

The Tangled Route, 2015 Number 3

‘The Tangled Route’ features a focus on new and classic Uruguayan poetry: new translations of Líber Falco, Horacio Cavallo and Ida Vitale, plus a conversation between two women poets from... Look inside Buy print issue

I WISH… 2015 Number 2

MPT’s summer 2015 issue ‘I WISH’ features a focus on world poetry for children: new translations of poems from Russia, Taiwan, Mexico and Eritrea and more, and some classic poems from... Look inside Buy print issue

Scorched Glass, 2015 Number 1

Our spring edition focuses on Iranian poetry, with a selection of new translations of poets including Forugh Farrokhzad, Nima Yushij and London Iranian writer, Ziba Karbassi. The featured translations have been... Look inside Sold out

The Singing of the Scythe, 2014 Number 3

'The Singing of the Scythe' is a selection of WW1 poetry like no other. From Paul van Ostaijen’s long Dadaist poem ‘Occupied City’ to the Japanese poet general Nogi to Punjabi folksongs, this issue... Look inside Buy print issue

The Constellation, 2014 Number 2

'The Constellation', is MPT's Poetry International issue, summer 2014. Poetry International Festival was founded by Ted Hughes in 1967, only two years after he and Danny Weissbort founded... Look inside Buy print issue

Twisted Angels, 2014 Number 1

Twisted Angels focusses on bold and experimental poetry from Brazil, work by contemporary poets such as Angélica Freitas and Nicolas Behr and new translations of the... Look inside Sold out

MPT Secret Agents of Sense: Focus on Polish Poetry

Secret Agents of Sense, 2013 Number 3

A focus on Polish Poetry. New translations of Krystyna Miłobędzka, Marcin Świetlicki, Justyna Bargielska, Łukasz Jarosz & Wojciech Bonowicz. Tributes to Heaney by... Look inside Buy print issue

Between Clay and Star, 2013 Number 2

This Summer's MPT includes a feature on Romanian poetry. Four important poets, whose work spans the twentieth and twenty-first century, Ana Blandiana, Gellu Naum, Dan Sociu and Liliana Ursu... Look inside Buy print issue

Strange Tracks, 2013 Number 1

Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT) has had a radical change of image. We have been working with Katy Mawhood at Reading University’s Department of Typography to produce a magazine that both refers... Look inside Buy print issue

Series 3 No.18 – Transitions

This is the final issue of MPT to be edited by David and Helen Constantine. It features the last of their inspiring editorial essays and a host of surprising and wonderful poems from... Look inside Buy print issue

Series 3 No.17 – Parnassus

Modern Poetry in Translation is the official poetry magazine partner of Southbank Centre’s ‘Poetry Parnassus’ Festival (26th June – 1st July 2012), a part of Southbank Centre’s... Look inside Buy print issue

Series 3 No.16 – The Dialect of the Tribe

The current issue of Modern Poetry in Translation (Third Series, Number 16) is called ‘The Dialect of the Tribe’. A people’s self-identity springs in large measure from its... Look inside Buy print issue

Series 3 No.15 – Poetry and the State

Poetry matters, and it matters that poetry should be translated and move freely across the frontiers of time and space. These are the premises on which we edit and... Look inside Buy print issue

Series 3 No.14 – Polyphony

'Polyphony' deals with the different voices of poetic translation: the local, the foreign, the native, the acquired – and the strange hybrids that come into being when the language of home is... Look inside Buy print issue

Series 3 No.13 – Transplants

The aim of Modern Poetry in Translation, since Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort founded the magazine, has been to bring foreign poetry into wider circulation in English translation and... Look inside Buy print issue

Series 3 No.12 – Freed Speech

2009 sees the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. One of those rights is freedom of speech. This issue of Modern Poetry in Translation celebrates speech that... Look inside Buy print issue

Series 3 No.11 – Frontiers

Every issue of MPT crosses frontiers. Contributions come in from all over the world. Copies go out world-wide. Whatever their subjects, the translations themselves... Look inside Buy print issue

Series 3 No.10 – The Big Green Issue

Modern Poetry in Translation, Third Series, No. 10 is dedicated to the beauty, abundance and plight of Mother Earth. This autumn MPT will be truly internationalist. Work from... Look inside Buy print issue

Series 3 No.9 – Palestine

Modern Poetry in Translation, Third Series, No. 9 is dedicated to Palestine, to the place itself, its changing geographical shape; and to Palestine as a location in the mind, the... Look inside Sold out

Series 3 No.8 – Getting it Across

“Poems are bread on the waters, messages in bottles, they may land anywhere.” In this issue, the editors examine translation in a very fundamental sense: getting yourself across. Look inside Buy print issue

Series 3 No.7 – Love and War

“Love in literature…has from the first adopted the imagery of war to say what it feels like and to describe and further the lover’s means and ends” is how the editors open their introduction to this... Look inside Buy print issue

Series 3 No.6 – After-Images

This powerful issue includes a selection of “Brecht on the South Bank”, part of this autumn’s Poetry International, which marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the most important... Look inside Buy print issue

Series 3 No.5 – Transgressions

'Transgressions' is a rich and rewarding issue which begins with the editors’ definition of what transgression might mean to a translator: ‘the word might allude to fidelity and infidelity; to the... Look inside Buy print issue

Series 3 No.4 – Between the Languages

'Between the Languages' focuses on poets who, by choice or by force of circumstances, move among the languages. Must a poet write in the mother tongue? Will a second language serve... Look inside Buy print issue

Series 3 No.3 – Metamorphoses

'Metamorphoses' seeks to extend the very idea of translation, and features texts which translators have transformed from a foreign original into something that is peculiarly their... Look inside Buy print issue

Series 3 No.2 – Diaspora

‘Diaspora’ in its editorial and in most of its contributions addresses exile, wandering and the struggle for a language abroad. It publishes important essays by Carmen Bugan (Romania, USA, UK) on... Look inside Buy print issue

Series 3 No.1 – Introductions

The first issue of MPT in the new series, edited by David and Helen Constantine. In their Editorial they promise two things: that they will continue the tradition of the magazine founded in... Look inside Buy print issue

Modern Poetry in Translation No.1

Modern Poetry in Translation No. 1

Fifty years ago poets Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort founded a magazine. Look inside