Modern Poetry in Translation Magazine

When Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort founded MPT in 1965 they had two principal ambitions: to get poetry out from behind the Iron Curtain into a wider circulation in English and to benefit writers and the reading public in Britain and America by confronting them with good work from abroad. They published poetry that dealt truthfully with the real contemporary world. For more than 50 years MPT has continued and widened that founding intent.

Modern Poetry in Translation Magazine’s tracks

• Chogwa Issue 5: Revisitation – Presented by Soje, MPT's 2020 Writer in Residence by Modern Poetry in Translation Magazine
• Haiku workshop, spring 2020: Alan Cummings speaks with Clare Pollard by Modern Poetry in Translation Magazine
• Erín Moure on 'Sonora: a Work in Progress' by Chus Pato – featuring Chus Pato and Lydia Mekonnen by Modern Poetry in Translation Magazine
• MPT The Illuminated Paths – Maghreb Poets on Tour at Waterstones, Gower Street by Modern Poetry in Translation Magazine
• Khairani Barokka introduces 'My Body Is Stone, My House Is the Moon’ by Modern Poetry in Translation Magazine
• Liz Berry reads ‘Iron Oss’ – Black Country Dialect by Modern Poetry in Translation Magazine
• Tim Saunders reads ‘Porthpean’ – in English and Cornish by Modern Poetry in Translation Magazine
• Sophie Herxheimer reads ‘On ze Kvestion off a ‘Hostile Infyroment’ – in Inklisch by Modern Poetry in Translation Magazine
• Anna Kessling reads ‘SW16 1961’ – a Streatham dialect translation of AE Housman by Modern Poetry in Translation Magazine
• Steve Dornan reads a version of Vahabzade’s ‘Knock the Fences Down’ – translated into Ulster Scots by Modern Poetry in Translation Magazine