Dzifa Benson speaks to MPT Editor Khairani Barokka: On names, poetry, and the Ewe language. The poetry in this podcast is featured in MPT Measureless Melodies, available at www.mptmagazine.com 

For a full transcript, see https://modernpoetryintranslation.com/dzifa-benson-speaks-to-khairani-barokka-on-names-poetry-and-the-ewe-language/

Dzifa Benson speaks to Khairani Barokka: On names, poetry, and the Ewe language

This recording is by Abdullah O. Jimoh.

Audio recording is of the poem featured in MPT Bearing the Burden of Sameness: Focus on Care. 

Read this poem and more: https://modernpoetryintranslation.com/magazine/bearing-the-burden-of-sameness-focus-on-care/

The Garden Must Tend Me, Abdullah O. Jimoh, Tr By The Poet

Iain Galbraith reads ‘December 1914’ from his Popescu Prize winning translation of Jan Wagner’s collection Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees, published by Arc Publications. The Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize is awarded biennially by The Poetry Society for a volume of poetry translated from a European language into English. The judges this year are Olivia McCannon and Clare Pollard. The prize is supported in 2015 by the British Council. For more information on the 2015 Popescu Prize and selected poems please visit our website: http://poetrysociety.org.uk/competitions/popescu-prize/2015-2/

Iain Galbraith discusses translating ‘December 1914’ by Jan Wagner

Anne Stokes reads ‘Earth’ from her Popescu Prize shortlisted translation of Sarah Kirsch’s collection Ice Roses: Selected Poems, published by Carcanet. The Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize has been awarded biennially by The Poetry Society for a volume of poetry translated from a European language into English. The judges this year are Olivia McCannon and Clare Pollard. The prize is supported in 2015 by the British Council. For more information on the 2015 Popescu Prize and selected poems please visit our website: http://poetrysociety.org.uk/competitions/popescu-prize/2015-2/

Anne Stokes discusses translating Sarah Kirsch and reads ‘Earth’

David Constantine reads ‘When I Left You, Afterwards…’ from his Popescu Prize shortlisted translation of Bertolt Brecht’s collection Love Poems, published by Liveright.  The Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize has been awarded biennially by The Poetry Society for a volume of poetry translated from a European language into English. The judges this year are Olivia McCannon and Clare Pollard. The prize is supported in 2015 by the British Council. For more information on the 2015 Popescu Prize and selected poems please visit our website: http://poetrysociety.org.uk/competitions/popescu-prize/2015-2/

David Constantine reads ‘When I Left You, Afterwards…’ by Bertolt Brecht

A recording from the World Poet Series. Featuring Syrian poet and translator Golan Haji, civil-rights activist and writer Nasrin Parvaz and translator and poet Stephen Watts. Supported by The British Council and Modern Poetry in Translation. This event was recorded in The Poetry Library on Wednesday 13th April 2016.

World Poet Series: The Great Flight

Dust - Read by Olivia McCannon

Map - Read by Olivia McCannon

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.

Dzifa Benson speaks to Khairani Barokka: On names, poetry, and the Ewe language

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