Polly Barton, on translating Japanese concrete poetry
read moreEssay: Hearing Beyond the Darkness – an Essay by Polly Barton
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Events: Online launch for MPT Dream Colours: Focus on Japan – Thursday 30 April, 7pm
Join us at 7pm on Thursday 30 April for the online launch of MPT Dream Colours. We’ll be streaming live from our YouTube channel, where MPT Editor Clare Pollard will be joined remotely by translators Jeffrey Angles and Polly Barton as well as poet Sayaka Osaki. Tune in for a discussion of Japanese poetry and translation as well as […]
read moreFeature: How to Make Sense
Freya Jackson reviews Melodilaust tone fall, by Silje Ree, Sampson Low, 2019.
read moreNews: CORONAVIRUS AND MPT
We hope you’re keeping safe and well. These are difficult times, but being part of an international poetry community feels more important than ever, and we hope we will be able to provide a platform over the coming months for poets, translators and readers to come together, collaborate and share.
read moreFeature: The Chilean Flag Forces Herself to be More than a Flag
Jasmine Chatfield reviews ‘The Chilean Flag’ by Elvira Hernández, translated by Alec Schumacher, Kenning Editions, 2019
read moreFeature: PODCAST: Erín Moure on ‘Sonora: a Work in Progress’ by Chus Pato – featuring Chus Pato and Lydia Mekonnen
Erín Moure reports back from our online workshop, on Galician poet Chus Pato’s poem ‘Sonora’ (a work-in-progress)
read moreFeature: The Idle Poet
David Cooke reviews ‘Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli’, translated by Taije Silverman with Mariona Della Putta Johnston, Princeton University Press, 2019.
read moreFeature: Like Bone, or Bread
In ‘Moder Dy’, Shetlandic poet Roseanne Watt explores the forgotten art of steering by the moder dy (mother wave), the name given to an underswell which is said to always travel in the direction of home.
read moreFeature: To Never Know the World the Same
Amanda Hopkinson reviews ‘Home on the Move: Two Poems go on a Journey’, edited by Manuela Perteghella & Ricarda Vidal, Parthian, 2019.
read moreFeature: We Have Words like Everyone: A Roundtable Discussion with Six Poets from Poems from the Edge of Extinction
What follows is a virtual roundtable discussion with six contributors to a newly published anthology I’ve edited called ‘Poems from the Edge of Extinction’ (Chambers, 2019)…
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