Modern Poetry in Translation
When Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort founded MPT in 1965 they had two principal ambitions: to get poetry out from behind the Iron Curtain into a wider circulation in English and to benefit writers and the reading public in Britain and America by confronting them with good work from abroad. They published poetry that dealt truthfully with the real contemporary world. For more than 40 years MPT has continued and widened that founding intent.Podcasts
Malta Focus - Khairani Barokka speaks with Adrian Grima and Albert Gatt
Published: Jan. 8, 2024, midnightDuration: 46 minutes 18 seconds
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Nadia Lopez Garcia, The Way of the Deer - Tr. Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez & Whitney Devos from Spanish
Published: Nov. 28, 2023, 1:46 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 18 seconds
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Sodiq Oyekanmi, river - Translated by the poet from Yoruba
Published: Nov. 28, 2023, 1:46 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 58 seconds
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Concha Mendez, 'This Must Be My Last Loss' - Translated by Harriet Truscott from Spanish
Published: Nov. 28, 2023, 1:45 p.m.Duration: 54 seconds
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Jaku Mata, Before the City Goes Under Water - Translated by Eric Abalajon from Filipino
Published: Nov. 28, 2023, 1:45 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 27 seconds
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Kim Seon-Hyang, Water Snake - Translated by Darcy Paquet and Sun Kyoung Yoon from Korean
Published: Nov. 28, 2023, 1:45 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 25 seconds
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Dzifa Benson speaks to Khairani Barokka: On names, poetry, and the Ewe language
Published: Sept. 1, 2023, 9:54 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 25 seconds
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Mosaddegh by Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou, translated by Siavash Saadlou
Published: Aug. 7, 2023, 1:32 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 15 seconds
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'All Roads Lead To Rome' by Immanuel Mifsud, translated by Ruth Ward and Immanuel Mifsud
Published: Aug. 7, 2023, 1:22 p.m.Duration: 50 seconds
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'Forms of Nausea' by Aya Nabih, translated by Sara Elkamel
Published: Aug. 7, 2023, 1:12 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 52 seconds
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Collection', by Priscilla Cassar, translated by Maria Grech Gannado
Published: Aug. 7, 2023, 1:06 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 50 seconds
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'The Wave', by Maria Grech Gannado, translated by the poet
Published: Aug. 7, 2023, 1:06 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds
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A Poet - Shark, By Hien Trang, Translated By The Poet
Published: April 25, 2023, midnightDuration: 1 minute 8 seconds
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Cac Co Cavern and Sweet Rice Ball, Afloat by Ho Xuan Huong, tr. by My Ngoc To.m4a
Published: April 25, 2023, midnightDuration: 1 minute 53 seconds
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I Fell Into A Cold By Nguyet Pham, Tr. By Phuong Anh
Published: April 25, 2023, midnightDuration: 2 minutes 50 seconds
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Noon, By Phoebe Giannisi, Tr. Brian Sneeden
Published: April 25, 2023, midnightDuration: 2 minutes 24 seconds
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The Reflection Of Sadness, Baabusha Kohli, Tr. Rituparna Sengupta
Published: April 25, 2023, midnightDuration: 3 minutes 10 seconds
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Here In Vi Da Hamlet, Han Mac Tu, Tr. By N.T. Anh
Published: April 25, 2023, midnightDuration: 1 minute 44 seconds
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Jhumpa Lahiri speaks to Khairani Barokka: On self-translation and turning to poetry
Published: March 2, 2023, 11:43 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 10 seconds
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Jhumpa Lahiri Cupboard. From MPT No.3 2022. Wrap It in Banana Leaves: The Food Focus
Published: Nov. 11, 2022, noonDuration: 52 seconds
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Jhio Jan Navarro, Smokestack Translated by Eric Abalajon from Hiligaynon
Published: Nov. 4, 2022, midnightDuration: 56 seconds
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Fu Hao, Birthday Translated by the poet from Chinese
Published: Nov. 4, 2022, midnightDuration: 1 minute 48 seconds
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Adriana Lisboa, Bowl Translated by Alison Entrekin from Brazilian Portuguese
Published: Nov. 4, 2022, midnightDuration: 37 seconds
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Lee Jenny, On Mornings I Drink Corn Soup Translated by Archana Madhavan from Korean
Published: Nov. 4, 2022, midnightDuration: 4 minutes 20 seconds
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Ervina Halili, The March of the Earth Translated by Suzana Vuljevic from Albanian
Published: Nov. 4, 2022, midnightDuration: 1 minute 33 seconds
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Romanian Poetry: Sam Riviere & Catalina Stanislav speak to Elena Vladareanu and Gabi Eftimie
Published: Nov. 3, 2021, 12:17 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 27 seconds
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Agnes Agboton, Astrid Alben, Lawrence Schimel and Clare Pollard From MPT Clean Hands
Published: May 11, 2021, 3:04 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 45 seconds
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Chogwa Issue 5: Revisitation Presented by Soje, MPT's 2020 Writer in Residence
Published: Sept. 30, 2020, 11:28 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 3 seconds
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Haiku workshop, spring 2020: Alan Cummings speaks with Clare Pollard
Published: Aug. 20, 2020, 2:33 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 48 seconds
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Erin Moure on 'Sonora: a Work in Progress' by Chus Pato featuring Chus Pato and Lydia Mekonnen
Published: March 17, 2020, 10:32 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 5 seconds
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MPT The Illuminated Paths Maghreb Poets on Tour at Waterstones, Gower Street
Published: Oct. 17, 2019, 9:24 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 43 seconds
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Khairani Barokka introduces 'My Body Is Stone, My House Is the Moon
Published: Aug. 19, 2019, midnightDuration: 14 minutes 50 seconds
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Tim Saunders reads Porthpean in English and Cornish
Published: March 31, 2019, midnightDuration: 3 minutes 14 seconds
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Christine De Luca reads Dis life is nivver enyoch in Shetlandic
Published: March 31, 2019, midnightDuration: 5 minutes 12 seconds
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Gerda Stevenson reads I am the Airt in Scots
Published: March 31, 2019, midnightDuration: 5 minutes 19 seconds
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Liz Berry reads Iron Oss Black Country Dialect
Published: March 31, 2019, midnightDuration: 3 minutes 42 seconds
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Jhilmil Breckenridge reads a Hindi translation of AE Housman
Published: March 31, 2019, midnightDuration: 1 minute 43 seconds
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Philip Gross and Cyril Jones read a series of englyn translations in English and Welsh
Published: March 31, 2019, midnightDuration: 7 minutes 46 seconds
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Mukur Petrolwala reads (Ash) a Gujarati translation of AE Housman
Published: March 31, 2019, midnightDuration: 2 minutes 34 seconds
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David Morley reads Roma and Roma a Romani tranlsation of AE Housman
Published: March 31, 2019, midnightDuration: 2 minutes 16 seconds
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Steve Dornan reads a version of Vahabzades Knock the Fences Down translated into Ulster Scots
Published: March 31, 2019, midnightDuration: 3 minutes 54 seconds
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Anna Kessling reads SW16 1961 a Streatham dialect translation of AE Housman
Published: March 31, 2019, midnightDuration: 1 minute 2 seconds
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Sophie Herxheimer reads On ze Kvestion off a Hostile Infyroment in Inklisch
Published: March 31, 2019, midnightDuration: 3 minutes 37 seconds
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HOW TO SWIM: Introducing our digital pamphlet on Lithuanian poetry
Published: Feb. 20, 2019, 8:24 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 46 seconds
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Words about Words: Introducing MPT's Digital Latvian Poetry Pamphlet
Published: Oct. 23, 2018, 8:57 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 48 seconds
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silencesilencesilencesilencesilencesilence: On Estonian poetry and our online translation workshop
Published: Aug. 7, 2018, midnightDuration: 12 minutes 5 seconds
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"In Spite of Everything": Annie Freud reading her translation of Jacques Tornay
Published: June 13, 2018, midnightDuration: 5 minutes 35 seconds
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The Struggle: a reading and discussion with Hisham Bustani and translator Thoraya El-Rayyes
Published: May 4, 2018, 12:32 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 56 seconds
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War Of the Beasts And The Animals - Read by the poet Maria Stepanova and translator, Sasha Dugdale
Published: Jan. 20, 2018, 7:58 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 40 seconds
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Mona Kareem: The Room of Darkness
Published: Oct. 2, 2017, 8:15 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 43 seconds
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Sumerian Tablets as 'Iraqi Haiku' - Dunya Mikhail reads 'Tablets III' and talks about her work
Published: Aug. 14, 2017, 1:55 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 33 seconds
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Translation Duel at Ledbury Poetry Festival! Olivia McCannon vs Susan Wicks
Published: July 16, 2017, 4:37 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 29 seconds
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Two poems by Jan Gavura, read by the poet and translator James Sutherland-Smith
Published: July 16, 2017, 4:26 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 3 seconds
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Siddhartha Bose: Elegy, Fathers City
Published: June 9, 2017, 2:49 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 12 seconds
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Two poems by Han Kang: read by Han Kang and translator Sophie Bowman
Published: May 2, 2017, 3:38 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 28 seconds
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Denise Riley and Don Mee Choi read at the launch of MPT The Blue Vein
Published: April 3, 2017, 1:01 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 57 seconds
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The Memory of Now: read by Geet Chaturvedi and Anita Gopalan
Published: Oct. 18, 2016, 7:14 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 8 seconds
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European Voices: with Tara Bergin, Jane Draycott, Jan Wagner and Iain Galbraith
Published: Oct. 9, 2016, 2:59 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 1 second
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Greetings to the People of Europe! Alemu Tebeje and Chris Beckett
Published: Aug. 7, 2016, 4:47 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 56 seconds
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One Night I Will Return to My Birthplace: Read by the poet, Majid Naficy, and Elizabeth T Gray Jr
Published: July 15, 2016, 3:50 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 53 seconds
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The Voronezh Variations: seven translations of an Osip Mandelstam quatrain, by George Szirtes
Published: June 28, 2016, 2:22 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 6 seconds
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'In Lampedusa' by Ribka Sibhatu: read by Niyat Remedy Asfaha, translated by Andre Naffis-Sahely
Published: June 5, 2016, 10:47 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 21 seconds
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Centres of Cataclysm - launching the MPT anthology
Published: May 30, 2016, 4:26 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 32 seconds
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Alexander Hutchison reads his Scots translation of Ernesto Cardenal
Published: Dec. 8, 2015, 12:14 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 43 seconds
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It's all in the nuances: a reading and discussion with Mexican poet Pedro Serrano
Published: Nov. 25, 2015, 8:48 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 36 seconds
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Choman Hardi - 'Homeland, what shall I do with you?'
Published: Nov. 25, 2015, 8:45 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 2 seconds
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50 years of MPT: International Translation Day 2015 with Sasha Dugdale, Helen and David Constantine
Published: Oct. 5, 2015, 4:27 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 5 seconds
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Michael Rosen and Marina Boroditskaya: Out of the Crocodile's Mouth
Published: Sept. 17, 2015, 3:46 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 8 seconds
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David Constantine: on poetry translation and the cultural habitat
Published: Sept. 9, 2015, 9:18 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 50 seconds
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Scorched Glass: Iranian Poetry at Poetry International 2015
Published: Aug. 2, 2015, 9:26 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes
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Launching MPT 'Scorched Glass' with Tedi Lopez Mills at the Poetry Library
Published: April 29, 2015, 5:10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 seconds
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Amarjit Chandan: to the fallen soldiers of the First World War
Published: Nov. 27, 2014, 11:05 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 18 seconds
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THE SOMALI-ENGLISH POETRY COLLECTIVE: "I am Somali"
Published: Oct. 15, 2014, 9:57 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 53 seconds
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Nikola Madzirov and Peggy Reid: from the launch of MPT 'The Constellation'
Published: Sept. 18, 2014, 11:36 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 36 seconds
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Who knows what Daphne really wanted? Sujata Bhatt, writing after Rilke
Published: Sept. 17, 2014, 6:53 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 44 seconds
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Torso of Polyphemus: Karen Leeder on Durs Grunbein and Rilke at Poetry International
Published: Sept. 17, 2014, 6:41 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 48 seconds
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In each person there exists a sheer drop: Christine Marendon and Ken Cockburn
Published: Sept. 17, 2014, 6:27 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 31 seconds
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What day knits, night forgets: Ana Martins Marques read by Julia Sanches
Published: June 14, 2014, 12:29 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 5 seconds
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Feminism, the internet and Brazilian poetry: Angelica Freitas and Hilary Kaplan
Published: May 28, 2014, 6:44 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 39 seconds
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Paulo Leminski - concretism and counterculture from Brazil
Published: May 11, 2014, 12:18 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 36 seconds
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Kim Hyesoon - reading at the Poetry Library
Published: April 15, 2014, 8:10 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 7 seconds
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Ciaran Carson - a reading and discussion from translator and poet Sean Hewitt
Published: Dec. 2, 2013, 11:54 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 42 seconds
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Wojciech Bonowicz gives an introduction to contemporary Polish Poetry
Published: Nov. 24, 2013, 4:51 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 24 seconds
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Transparenting: vanishing in Krystyna Miobedzka's poetry. (Polish Focus, 'Secret Agents of Sense')
Published: Nov. 8, 2013, 10:29 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 18 seconds
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On Justyna Bargielska - reading and conversation with Maria Jastrzebska
Published: Nov. 8, 2013, 9:54 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 50 seconds
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Claudiu Komartin and Stephen Watts
Published: Sept. 30, 2013, 10:13 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 50 seconds
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Mihaela Moscaliuc
Published: Sept. 30, 2013, 10:13 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 15 seconds
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Oana Sanziana Marian
Published: Sept. 29, 2013, 4:15 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 19 seconds
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Fiona Sze-Lorrain reads her translation of Zhang Zao's 'Mirror'
Published: June 4, 2013, 9:01 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 5 seconds
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Ester Naomi Perquin
Published: June 4, 2013, 8:52 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 13 seconds
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Talking Vrouz: Valerie Rouzeau and Susan Wicks
Published: June 4, 2013, 8:46 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 29 seconds
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