‘Fear of Language’ – a Katja Perat poem translated
Nicoletta Asciuto writes: Katja Perat is a contemporary Slovenian poet and novelist. Her first poetry collection, Najboljši so padli (The Best Have Fallen), …
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Two translations of Corrado Govoni
Chiara Salomoni writes: Corrado Govoni was born near Ferrara in 1884 and died near Rome in 1965. He was a prolific writer of poetry, …
After Catullus – three versions by Peter Jenkins
The bridge above the station – After Catullus 5 Hunger on their lips for living, for loving, they disregard the looks …
‘Masks’ – a translation by April Yee of Sebastián Núñez Torres
April writes: “Chilean poet and academic Sebastián Núñez Torres (b. 1984) explores the fracturing of self and society in Las arpas rotas (Bajo …
‘Like walking in the rain’: César Vallejo, Carolyn Forché, and the problem of witness
César Vallejo in 1929; the cover of Carolyn Forché’s The Country Between Us (Harper & Row, 1982) Jonathan Hitchens The very …
‘Namái Ye Un Ayeri’ – a poem in Asturian and English by Xe M. Sánchez
Namái Ye Un Ayeri los poemes aseméyense abondu a eses ciudaes que les lleendes alluguen baxu les agües o sapozaes baxu …
Translations of Theodorakis by Gail Holst-Warhaft
The below translations are taken from The House with the Scorpions: Selected Poems and Song-Lyrics of Mikis Theodorakis (Fomite, 2020), translated by Gail Holst-Warhaft. …
‘Encounter’, a version of Baudelaire, by Stuart Henson
Encounter Traffic was howling in my ears and eyes that moment when we passed—she in her slim black dress, a gloved …
Two translations by James Owens
The Death of Dido —Aeneid IV, 692-705 She searched the sky for light, and moaned to find it. Then mighty …
Three Poems from Centres of Cataclysm
To celebrate 50 years of Modern Poetry in Translation, Bloodaxe have just published an anthology – Centres of Cataclysm – edited by Sasha Dugdale and …