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!

Ten days left to submit!

'I want to be magic kidnapped kisses: dusk’s latening voluptuousness unfurls the mango branches.' M.P. Bonde, translated from Mozambican Portuguese by Beth Hickling-Moore Now featuring audio of two poems 🔉 modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/five-po...

New online! 'From the Archive': Daniel Kramb writers on Swiss Francophone poet and translator Philippe Jaccottet, in translations by Alastair Thomson from French First published in MPT 'Frontiers' (2009) modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...

AND FINALLY — we will be open for submissions of fiction, essays, qnd experimental pieces throughout August details here: oleada.io/publication/...

Last chance to enter the Stephen Spender Prize 2025!! Deadline THIS THURSDAY 31 July at midnight (BST) Find your category and enter now: www.stephen-spender.org/stephen-spen... We can’t wait to read your translations! #SSTPoetryPrize2025 #PortugueseSpotlight

'I want to be magic kidnapped kisses: dusk’s latening voluptuousness unfurls the mango branches.' M.P. Bonde, translated from Mozambican Portuguese by Beth Hickling-Moore Now featuring audio of two poems 🔉 modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/five-po...

Great submission opportunity for translators!

'Lao She sank in a lake. Fu Lei hanged himself. Xiong Shili died of hunger strike. And Shen Congwen turned to the study of ancient Chinese apparel.' Liu Ligan, translated from Chinese by Dong Li modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/literat...

ICYMI! We're open to translations of poems from any language, on any theme. Deadline: 15 August Please spread the word! ✨ @stephenspender.bsky.social @worldlittoday.bsky.social @poetrytranslation.bsky.social @englishpen.bsky.social @littranslate.bsky.social @catranslation.bsky.social

We are now open for general submissions. Submit translations of poems from any language into English. Deadline: 15 August 2025. modernpoetryintranslation.submittable.com/submit/10070...

Poetry post! 🎉💥🔥Exploring indy presses/zines & now have this pretty pile! Binge-book-buying, love so many, individual posts soon! Thx to: @theemmapress.bsky.social Aftershock Review @maxwallis.bsky.social @mptmagazine.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social Ignition Press & Templar Poetry

Excited for our 60th anniversary celebration at Winchester Poetry Festival! Join us for 'Translating The Classics', with Naush Sabah and Philip Terry! Saturday 11th October, 4-5pm Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/translatin...

Read and listen to three poems by Inna Kransnoper, translated from Russian by Elina Alter and the poet – along with readings in English and Russian. 🎧 This series includes the poem that gives our current issue its title: 'Presently Proximal Person' modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/three-p...

'Clarice 6-4-68' by Ana Cristina Cesar – translated from Portuguese by Mónica De La Torre Including audio read by Mónica De La Torre – plus the poem in the original Portuguese read by Andrea Lerner modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/clarice...

Today’s Featured Poem: “Politics’ Corpse Covered with the Morning Paper” by Afrizal Malna, translated from the Indonesian by Daniel Owen from Salam To Gaza: Focus On Dissent And Resistance published by @mptmagazine.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/politic...

Excited for our 60th anniversary celebration at Winchester Poetry Festival! Join us for 'Translating The Classics', with Naush Sabah and Philip Terry! Saturday 11th October, 4-5pm Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/translatin...

'Lao She sank in a lake. Fu Lei hanged himself. Xiong Shili died of hunger strike. And Shen Congwen turned to the study of ancient Chinese apparel.' modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/literat... From 'Literature Lesson', Liu Ligan, translated from Chinese by Dong Li

'I remain baffled by the ineffectualness of the old literati and their unanimous abandon. Their insight into human nature did no help to cleave through thorns a level path for posterity.' Liu Ligan, tr. by Dong Li from Chinese modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/literat...

NEW ONLINE: #FromTheArchive: Shash Trevett writes on Miklós Radnóti translated from #Hungarian by Stephen Capus, published in our 2010 issue ‘Transplants’. Read her article below, including a link to read the whole issue in full for free until 30 July modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...

Starting in one hour!

TONIGHT! 6.00 - 7.00pm UK time (GMT+1) Feturing readings from contributors M.P. Bonde, Beth Hickling-Moore and Vivek Narayanan. Chaired by Jessica Sequeira. Book your free place www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-...

Looking forward to welcoming current issue contributors M.P. Bonde, Beth Hickling-Moore and Vivek Narayanan to Zoom for readings to celebrate our latest issue! Book your free place: modernpoetryintranslation.com/online-launc...

TODAY is Pub Day for Batool Abu Akleen's 48KG, tr. various, and the poetry pamphlet she edited & translated for @mptmagazine.bsky.social, SEA SHELLS. Order 48Kg from Tenement Press: tenementpress.com/Batool-Abu-A... And read SEA SHELLS free online: modernpoetryintranslation.com/sea-shells-a...

PUBLISHED ONLINE TODAY Sea Shells: Emerging Poets from #Gaza Selected and translated by MPT Poet in Residence, Batool Abu Akleen. modernpoetryintranslation.com/sea-shells-a...

Tomorrow is publication day for two works by Batool: 48Kg, her poetry collection from @tenement-press.bsky.social (tenementpress.com/Batool-Abu-A...) and SEA SHELLS, a poetry pamphlet she curated & translated for @mptmagazine.bsky.social, where she's currently poet-in-residence.

Looking forward to welcoming current issue contributors M.P. Bonde, Beth Hickling-Moore and Vivek Narayanan to Zoom for readings to celebrate our latest issue! Book your free place: modernpoetryintranslation.com/online-launc...

Next Wednesday at 6pm! Get a free ticket at the link below ✨

Modern Poetry in Translation, No. 1, 2025 is out now. Well worth taking a sub out for. @mptmagazine.bsky.social

SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. Sergio Toribio is a Spanish citizen. Pressure the Spanish foreign ministries and help us keep Sergio safe! E: [email protected] ...2/