Matt Howard
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‘Two Visions’ – a translation from the Estonian of Mathura
Below is an English version of the two-part poem ‘Kaks nägemust’ (‘Two Visions’) by the Estonian poet, Mathura. Winner of the Gustav Suits Poetry Award and other literary prizes in his native country, Mathura’s work has been rendered into a dozen languages and, here, has been translated into English in collaboration with the poet…
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Two poems by Matt Howard
Cults of Broadland Fen raft spider Let us venerate niche and otherness, local, patch-level occurrence – take the fen raft spider’s each simple eye, each leg hair sensing the water’s tension. All his drawn out care, a display of front legs in arcs across the meniscus, that moving slenderness, stop-start,…