Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.15) Poetry and the State Khaled Khalifa

Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.15) Poetry and the State Khaled KhalifaPoetry matters, and it matters that poetry should be translated and move freely across the frontiers of time and space. These are the premises on which we edit and poets and translators from all over the world contribute to MPT. But we want the next issue to prove a truth we hold to be self evident: that poetry is necessary for a humane life. Some states encourage their poets, others ignore them, others imprison and murder them. We want to document

Accustomed as they are to skyscrapers

Belinda Cooke on Vasko Popa

A facsimile of the 1923 Methuen edition

I hear her sweet song

which has a profound effect on both

My first translations may have been my way of bridging the displacement from that country

such as the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia)

The encounter that she orchestrates between Dante

it is complete in itself and full of promise of greater things

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Despite the sense of unreconstructed emotion the dominant tone is cool and mordant

The Golem of Old Prague is a beautiful and unfortunately timely book