Modern Poetry in Translation No3 2019

MPT’s autumn issue ‘I Have Not Known a Grief Like This’ focuses on Extinction, with a roundtable about endangered languages, chaired by Chris McCabe and including Recaredo Boturu, Joy Harjo, Nineb Lamassu, Valzhyna Mort, Vaughan Rapatahana and Zubair Torwali. It also includes new translations of Greenland’s Songs from Ammasalik by Nancy Campbell, a Pacific feature, and poems about endangered ecosystems around the world, from Brazil to Eritrea. Also featured: Fernando Valverde’s sequence ‘Shootings’ translated by Carolyn Forché, and Elhum Shakerifar, Will Harris, Amy Key and Martha Sprackland translate Iranian film into poetry. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT