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| Editor | Khairani Barokka |
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| Categories | Literary magazine |
| Frequency | Three times a year |
| Founded | 1965 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | Oxford |
| Language | English |
| Website | Official website |
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Modern Poetry in Translation is a literary magazine and publisher based in the United Kingdom. The magazine was started by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort in 1965. [1] It was relaunched by King's College London in 1992. [2] The college published it until 2003. [2] It publishes contemporary poetry from all around the world, in English.
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Its first issue was a landmark. Writers previously unknown to the West were introduced by Hughes and Weissbort. The list included Miroslav Holub, Yehuda Amichai, Ivan Lalić, Zbigniew Herbert, Czesław Miłosz (who would later win the Nobel Prize in Literature), Andrei Voznesensky, and Vasko Popa (later written of as "one of the best European poets writing today" by literary critic John Bayley of Oxford University in an essay in The New York Review of Books on a translation of Popa by Anne Pennington with an introduction by Ted Hughes in "The Persea Series of Poetry in Translation," general editor Daniel Weissbort). [3]
Founder and editor Weissbort headed The University of Iowa translation workshop program for decades. [4] Of his many books, Weissbort edited Translation: Theory and Practice: A Historical Reader that was published by the Oxford University Press, [5] edited with Astradur Eysteinsson. [6] The London Guardian [7] newspaper wrote that Weissbort founded Carcanet Press. [8] [9] The Wall Street Journal [10] excerpted a Weissbort translation of Missing Person [ citation needed ] by Patrick Modiano [11] after Modiano received the Nobel Prize for Literature. [12]
On the Stanford University site of The Book Haven by Cynthia Haven, in an obituary of Daniel Weissbort, Daniel Weissbort is defined as a "master translator." [13] Also on this Stanford University web site, Weissbort is called a champion of translation. [13] Weissbort has genius in translation, obituary of Weissbort in Translationista. [14]
To celebrate the magazine's 50th anniversary, a microsite was developed to present the first issue of Modern Poetry in Translation in its entirety, including high resolution scans of the original print document. The microsite was expanded to a full website at www.modernpoetryintranslation.com in 2018. The original anniversary microsite, and first issue, is available at modernpoetryintranslation.com/home-50 via the Wayback Machine. [15]
From 2012 to 2017 Sasha Dugdale was the editor of Modern Poetry in Translation, overseeing a redesign and publishing sixteen issues of the magazine as well as its fiftieth anniversary anthology Centres of Cataclysm (Bloodaxe, 2016). Clare Pollard was editor from 2017 to 2022. From issue No. 3 2022 (Wrap It in Banana Leaves: The Food Focus) the editor has been Khairani Barokka until November 2023. [16] Managing Editor Sarah Hesketh edited Bearing the Burden of Sameness: Focus on Care (April 2024). From July 2024 the magazine is edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
