TRANSLATIONS
5 Halina Poświatowska Translations by Karolina Zapal and Ryan Mihaly
(women are prized for their beauty) women are prized for their beauty men for the shadow of their long lashes and poets for hiding flocks of aquamarine emotions in a word oblong night — under a kneecap moon the poets …
4 Róger Lindo Translations by Matthew Byrne
His poems rely on an aesthetic of ambiguity that enumerates the ambling routes a trauma-addled mind will travel. You never quite know what you’ll find around the corner, much less why it’s there.
3 Ni Zan Translations by Aiden Heung
Poem Written for the Painting of Mao Mountain By Wenju I’ve come again to this road that winds from the west of Huating, my past preceding like a ghost I must visit; The moon hangs above, and cascades its silver …
3 Juan Arabia Translations by Katherine M Hedeen
Nature’s Dislodging Let’s go down together to feel the dislodging. Listen to the wind as it swells above the wheat: sharp metal war. A silver racket rusts the living, splits up each and every thing that exists in the world. …
3 Maya Abu Al-Hayyat Translations
Penniless Penniless I live at a checkpoint, trifles make me happy, like when a whole day passes without me seeing a single soldier, his bored yawning. There I write my new novel about the butcher who wanted to be a …
Translation of Wadih Sa’adeh’s ‘Dead Moments’
A central figure in development of the Arabic prose poem, Wadih Sa’adeh’s work treats and springs from interrogations of exile and displacement, the constant tension between the present and memory, and the place of the poet between them.
3 Vyachesav Huk Translations
He dared to write her a letter in the last quarter of an anguished winter, while he was in hospital, with a handkerchief pressed to his nose to stop the bleeding …
3 Joseph Ponthus Translations
It is a rare thing indeed to be entrusted with the translation of such a startlingly original work as Joseph Ponthus’s À la ligne.
2 Translations: Jiří Orten and Vladimír Holan
Jiří Orten (1919–1941) and Vladimír Holan (1905–1980) are considered today to be among the central figures in twentieth-century Czech poetry.
Contemporary Chinese Poetry in Translation: The Homings and Departures Project
Image by Wang Yin Homings & Departures is a poetry translation project of the China Australia Writing Centre (CAWC) at Curtin and Fudan Universities, and the International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI) at the University of Canberra. As worldwide borders close …
3 Amir Hamzah Translations
Amir Hamzah, the greatest Indonesian poet of his generation, was born into the ruling family of Langkat, a Malay sultanate within the Dutch colonial government’s East Sumatra Residency.
3 Antoine Emaz Translations
The French versions of these poems were published in the anthology Caisse Claire.
5 Gabriela Mistral Translations
Gabriela Mistral is a central figure in 20th Century Latin American poetry. She was the first Latin American writer to win the Nobel Prize (in 1945), and to this day is the only Latin American woman to have won the …
3 Lionel Ray Translations
The evening stretches towards the trees : the dead never left this country nor the lesser shadows of these hills. And you, you awake in the dust and flame of a simpler time. In the ripening brightness, this mouthful of …
Long Poem Translation of Marilyne Bertoncini
Sand for my mother be aware that comings and goings are like dreams, like reflections of the moon on water. –Yogi Milarépa I can’t remember the future, She says The sea is breathing is slow fickle expires and licks …
3 Inger-Mari Aikio Translations
hundred what if all my men were to gather around me at the same time, the dead ones too, young in the morning, in the evening just as they are or would be if they lived what would they say …
3 Hasan Alizadeh Translations
In Exile Far away too sorrow is domestic. A cloud—invisible— every evening in white letters— is caught by the eye for a moment through migrating shadows but it escapes from the eye. A stone —no!—a pebble which you roll & …
6 Dimitris Troaditis Translations
With a Red Inclination This long march towards death must be stopped these purple deep-black marks of giddiness must change colour this unshakeable pain above the shelters of our hearts must mutate into explosive thought persistent and fiery fired on …
5 Self-translations by Albena Todorova
Translations edited by Momchil Milanov you say don’t cry tears are a sign of weakness saying you think only of yourself I reply I am not crying it’s just that god inside me leans on the human it gets damp …
6 Nora Iuga Translations
oh, how I cheat myself how I shuffle my lovers the living and the dead in this tavern named poetry I always relished being a coquette black stockings bright red nails you know it’s very hard today to carry this shopping …
4 Self-translations by Danijela Trajković
Passionfruit Honey I did not look for you on any road the roads grew tired of us so quickly anyway in the meadows where we ran there are no birds anymore I did not look for you at the village …
4 Translated Kim Seung-hee Poems
A Heart Full of Fingernails In sin, sin knows no sin. In solitude, solitude knows no solitude. “A series of solitary deaths all over the country.” Though I am not a prisoner of conscience, what always troubles me is the …
5 Translated Yosuke Tanaka Poems
Image courtesy of The High Window. For a Person Suffering from Air-Conditioning Syndrome Because Japan is located at the edge of Asia you can enjoy great soup noodles there Let’s start with that as an introduction When you enter a …
