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'I will not repeat Phryni…' Iliassa Sequin Translated from Greek by Calliope Michail From our (now sold-out) issue: The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus

Now SOLD OUT! ❤️

D'oh! This should say Thursday 11th December. Join us!

Reminder! Online Launch: Thurs 12 Dec Join us to celebrate the latest issue of MPT, The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus With Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden, Dimitra Kotoula, Maria Nazos, chaired by issue editor Jessica Sequeira. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-...

Polysyllabic Words by Jazra Khaleed Translated from Greek by Jason Rigas Featured in the latest MPT: The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus

Call for applications! Poet-in-Residence Villa Waldberta / Lyrik Kabinett, Munich Applications open until 20th January 2026 www.lyrik-kabinett.de/aktuelles/ne...

'The sea’s remorse surfaces every time the waves appear. Not the wild, raging, frightening waves but the other kind sweet and soothing, like lullabies.' * – The sea’s remorse Argyris Stavropoulos Translated from Greek by Gigi Papoulias modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/the-sea...

'In the beginning was the grazing the pasture, sections of earth gathered extended suffused from rain and the elements eaten by footsteps, the cursive of animals and humans echoing' Phoebe Giannisi, tr Brian Sneeden modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/transhu...

‘My name is Odysseas’ he said but no one ever gives their real name. ‘You’re handsome’ he said. He seemed like a well-brought-up boy. 'Names' George Le Nonce, translated from Greek by Kostya Tsolakis modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/names/

Out now! MPT The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus, guest edited by Jessica Sequeira, features 30 selections of poems translated into English by contemporary poets, expanding the linguistic boundaries of Modern Greek, Bulgarian and Arvanitika, and more.

Brilliant to get @mptmagazine.bsky.social’s latest issue focusing on the poetry of Greece and Cyprus. Since its foundation in the mid-1960s by Ted Hughes & Daniel Weissbort, MPT has been hugely important in bringing Greek poetic voices to an English-speaking readership. Great that this continues.

Honored to have my translations included in @mptmagazine.bsky.social 's latest issue focused on Greek poetry! Congrats to all the contributors. Check out the online preview & purchase a print or online version!

OUT NOW! The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus Guest-edited by Jessica Sequeira Featuring artwork by Phoebe Giannisi ('Aegis') Buy this issue: buy.stripe.com/5kQeVedZOgRY... See full contents: modernpoetryintranslation.com/magazine/the...

Our latest #FromTheArchive piece is now online – selected by our fabulous Guest Editor Jessica Sequeira! In this piece she looks back at MPT 'Songs of the Shattered Throat', selecting a poem by Afzal Ahmed Syed translated from Urdu by Taimoor Shahid... modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...

To mark Day of the #ImprisonedWriter today, send a message of solidarity through our letter-writing campaign, #PENWrites, and join indie bookshops across the UK who are taking part. 💌 Write a letter of hope: www.englishpen.org/campaigns/pe...

Literary translators! Our publisher, @twolinespress.com, is currently open for submissions for animal stories in translation (from any language) & the Stevns Translation Prize (for Vietnamese translators). As always, no submissions fees. For more info visit: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...

Cover reveal! ✨ MPT ‘The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus’, guest edited by Jessica Sequeira, posts to subscribers and all pre-orders on 28 November. Cover image: from the Aigis (goatskin, pen), 2015 by Phoebe Giannisi

Not to be missed: two events coming up with Phoebe Giannisi in Oxford and Cambridge! Cambridge: Friday 14th November with translator Brian Sneeden www.ccgs.csah.cam.ac.uk/events/poetr... And in Oxford on 17 November with Brian Sneeden and A. E. Stallings www.ox.ac.uk/event/phoebe...

Lovely piece from @mptmagazine.bsky.social and @bethangharad.bsky.social, who puts an ear to the archive and walks us through the Darkness with Ana Luísa Amaral and Margaret Jull Costa 👂 (don't forget to read the poem at the end!)

I wrote a little thing for the @mptmagazine.bsky.social ‘From the Archives’ feature. I’d love you to give it a read! modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...

Our latest 'From the Archive' feature is now online! Beth Hickling-Moore writes on Ana Luísa Amaral translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc... As ever, the article includes a link to read this issue online in full, for free – until 30th Nov!

Thanks to everyone who joined us at Poetry Library on Wednesday! We had a full house celebrating 60 years of MPT with Richard Hollis, David and Helen Constantine, Sasha Dugdale, plus a video with Cristina Viti presenting selected poems from our online selection of poetry from Gaza.

New podcast! In this special edition, celebrating the magazine’s 60th anniversary, we return to its earliest days with one of the founding members, the graphic designer Richard Hollis – interviewed by J.S. Tennant. modernpoetryintranslation.com/podcast-the-...

New online! Watch our conversation with Ottilie Mulzet and Sara Elkamel as we celebrate MPT Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature Chaired by issue Editor, Jessica Sequeira 🌿 Now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Yd... @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social

Two pages from Scorched Glass @mptmagazine.bsky.social (see my previous post) with poems by Sabeer Haka, tr. by Nasrin Parwaz & Hubert Moore. The translators indicated censored words with brackets.

Registration for #IPCITI2025, the 18th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting, is now OPEN!! 🎉🎉🎉 🗓️ Register before 24 October to get our special early-bird fee. 🧠 We have a packed two-day programme with plenty of opportunities to network and decompress. (1/3)

This is so good to read as this Iranian @mptmagazine.bsky.social issue was one of my very favourite and Farrokhzad is one of the most exciting poets we published. I think she may appear in @poetclare.bsky.social new @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social collection?

Thrilled to have Clare Pollard write our latest #FromTheArchive piece for September! (Includes free access to the whole of our Iran focus issue. Link inside the article 👀)

Winchester Poetry Festival is approaching. online events are so important for accessibility, but they’re also costly to run & we haven’t sold many online tickets yet. Just wanted to shout that our headline events are live-streamed and BSL interpreted! 1/3 www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on

'Atmosphere', by Subhro Bandopadhyay – 📘 🎧 read & listen online Translated from Bengali by Sampurna Chattarji Published in the latest MPT – Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/atmosph...

'Atmosphere', by Subhro Bandopadhyay – 📘 🎧 read & listen online Translated from Bengali by Sampurna Chattarji Published in the latest MPT – Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/atmosph...

'This Kafi by Sanwal Gurmani pulses with the rhythms of love, land, and longing. Set against the backdrop of nature—the forest, the deer, the red earth—it weaves the emotional terrain of human connection into the physical landscape'– Mediah Ahmed Read online: modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/kafi

NEW ONLINE: Ehlobo (‘Summer’) by N.S. Sigogo Translated from isiNdebele by Stephen Walsh modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/summer-2/ Published in the latest MPT: Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature

Here's my 'short & sweet' poetry newsletter for Sept: info on 'dance as if' launch events in Cornwall & London @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social & recommending @mptmagazine.bsky.social Plus an article on how I write @serenbooks.bsky.social See mailchi.mp/10e91fb65935... #danceasif #poetry #howiwrite

By Ethiopian poet and activist Gemoraw (from @mptmagazine.bsky.social) “If we find ourselves in a free country / what is the use of freedom / if we do not speak for the speechless?”

READ ONLINE: My heart is an active volcano Begoña Ugalde, translated from Chilean Spanish by Drago Yurac 🔉Including audio recordings from Begoña Ugalde and Drago Yurac modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/my-hear...

'Listen how the tigers love each other and the jungle fills with their deep panting, and the night splits open with their ferocious lightning.' Harmony – Piedad bonnet, translated from Colombian Spanish by Richard Gwyn modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/harmony/

#translation #poetry #poetrycommunity #xl8

'A poet with his feet firmly planted on the blood-stained earth who, not naively but stubbornly, keeps looking toward optimism is a beacon in these fraught times.' Lawrence Schimel on Nikola Madzirov tr Peggy & Graham Reid in our latest #FromTheArchive modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...

'A poet with his feet firmly planted on the blood-stained earth who, not naively but stubbornly, keeps looking toward optimism is a beacon in these fraught times.' Lawrence Schimel on Nikola Madzirov tr Peggy & Graham Reid in our latest #FromTheArchive modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...

Very pleased to annouce the next edition of MPT Labs! Embodying Translation: Poetry’s Lea(r)nings – online workshop with Erín Moure Limited to 8 places £10 for subscribers – or £39 plus a 1 year subscription modernpoetryintranslation.com/mpt-labs-emb...

'Look how we love our universities, our plums, our country’s crisp air, our Za’atar, our poets, our villages blown to pieces.' From 'Enter Palestinian love', Dalia Taha tr. Sara Elkamel Read full poem online: modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/enter-p...

NEW ONLINE Memento Poem by Kenzaburō Ōe, translated from #Japanese by Akagi Kobayashi Published in the latest MPT Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/memento...

Extract from ‘Cow’ – six poems by Uruguayan poet Claudia Magliano in @mptmagazine.bsky.social tr. Jesse Lee Kercheval & Jeannine Marie Pitas. Have a look! 🐄

The results of our collaboration with @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social are now available to read online! ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/div... Congratulations to Rucha Virmani with the winning poem 'December Heat' (written in response to 'And more' by Felícia Fuster, translated by Marialena Carr.)

OUT NOW! MPT Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature With poems by Kenzaburō Ōe, Marina Tsvetaeva, Dalia Taha, Begoña Ugalde and many others. Guest-edited by Jessica Sequeira modernpoetryintranslation.com

The Syrian artist Walid El-Masri, whose beautiful tree became a cover for @mptmagazine.bsky.social is on hunger strike to protest the atrocities happening in Sweida’s current humanitarian crisis and the ongoing siege.

Cover reveal! Delighted to share the artwork for the August 2025 issue of MPT, Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature, guest-edited by Jessica Sequeira. This issue will be posting out to subscribers at the end of this week! Cover artwork by artwork by Estéfani Díaz Azúa

Don't miss this submission deadline, folks!