MPT's new look Spring issue Strange Tracks focuses on Dutch poetry, with a selection of new poems by three of the Netherlands most exciting poets: Toon Tellegen, Ester Naomi Perquin and Menno Wigman and an interview with Tellegen and his English translator Judith Wilkinson about their prize-winning collaboration Raptors. The issue also features poems from around the world: Zhang Zao, Luis Felipe Fabre's poems about the drug wars in Mexico, Argentinian poet Fabian Casas and French poet Valerie Rouzeau. There are also new translations of Baudelaire by Australian poet Jan Owen and some fresh new versions of poems and riddles from The Exeter Book. We're also launching a new design for MPT and some commissioned cover artwork. For the best in world poetry read MPT.
Del 5 - Modern Poetry in Translation, Third Series
'The Constellation' is the special 'Poetry International Festival' issue of Modern Poetry in Translation. The magazine focusses on the powerful and moving exchange of poems and letters between Bertolt Brecht and his lover and collaborator Margarete Steffin as they went through exile, war and loss. These new translations are by acclaimed translator and poet David Constantine. The issue also features new poems by Christine Marendon and Nikola Madzirov who are both appearing at the Poetry International Festival at London's Southbank Centre, and responses to Rilke's poetry by Patrick McGuiness, Sujata Bhatt and Durs Grunbein. Raw new poems from Iran, poetry from China, Somalia and Turkey and translations by John Berger of his son Yves Berger's French poetry are just a few of the many highlights.
