About Modern Poetry in Translation
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MPT was founded by Daniel Weissbort and Ted Hughes in 1966 and is a journal with an international reputation for the wide range of poets and translators that it presents, and for serious and lively discussion of the art of translating poetry. The magazine was relaunched under the editorship of David and Helen Constantine in 2004.
The real circumstances of the world may have changed, but they are every bit as pressing as they were when the magazine began. As the English language marches towards an apparent hegemony, the need for its readers and writers to be confronted by what is foreign is even greater still.
Issues of MPT generally offer a themed special section, in addition to a wide-ranging selection of poems from other times and places, plus essays and reviews. The average issue of around 200 pages, and has a cover specially designed by the artist and designer, Lucy Wilkinson.
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 | Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.13) Transplants by Helen Constantine, David Constantine Translation can be thought of as the transplanting of a living thing out of its native time and place into somewhere foreign. There it may thrive or die. How can the subjects and forms of poetry be transplanted across time and space? £9.95 |  | 1 Year Subscription to Modern Poetry in Translation by Helen Constantine, David Constantine We are on the look-out for good translations of good poety from anywhere in the world. More particularly, for our next few issues, we want translations, original poems and short essays... £19.90 |
 | Rocco Scotellaro: Poems by Rocco Scotellaro When he died at the age of thirty, Rocco Scotellaro had published poems in regional and national magazines and was beginning to attract significant critical attention and acclaim. £4.00 | ||
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