Modern Poetry in Translation is holding two events Ledbury Poetry Festival in July 2018. Find our more about the festival here, and browse details of our events beneath.
70. Modern Poetry in Translation Summer Launch Book your place
Saturday, 7th July 2018 | 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm | Burgage Hall| £9.50
Join MPT Editor Clare Pollard to celebrate the summer’s LGBTQ focus. With Mary Jean Chan discussing queerness and the concept of ‘Playtime’; Richard Scott reading versions of Verlaine and new translations of Jayan Cherian; Jennifer Lee Tsai picking her highlights.
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79. Ukrainian Translation Duel Book your place
Sunday, 8th July 2018 | 1.00pm – 2.00pm | Burgage Hall | £9.50
Translators Uilleam Blacker and Iryna Shuvalova are en garde to fight a poetry translation duel at Ledbury Festival 2018. Uilleam and Iryna will be discussing their different translations of a single poem by contemporary Ukrainian poet Kateryna Kalytko, who will appear at the Festival as part of Versopolis. Compare and contrast the two translators’ approaches to a striking and powerful poem by one of Ukraine’s strongest and most singular poets reflected and refracted in the English of two highly-skilled translators. Watch Uilleam and Iryna cross swords, and join in the conversation: what makes a translation ‘work’ as English-language poetry?
Comment on the translations @mptmagazine @ledburyfest with the hashtag #translationduel
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