Thursday 26 May 2011

Want to read a book of poetry in translation this summer?

Modern Poetry in Translation has begun a wonderful project, where they'll send you one of their books received in exchange for a 100-word "poetry postcard" when you're finished. I don't review books in translation because of my weak knowledge of living foreign languages, so I'm particularly pleased to have an opportunity to read and respond to such a book without that concern. Join me?

5 comments:

  1. Aisling Tempany2:24 pm

    ooooh, sounds cool! I'll join!

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  2. I just sent of my details to join, despite the fact that my reading pile falls over every time anyone walks past it. Looking forward.

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  3. Hazel3:26 pm

    I'd love to do this especially if its from German ... so count me in - cheers

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  4. Very interesting. With my potential publisher, I'm currently in negotiation with the French copyright holders of the works of French poet Blaise Cendrars, hoping that they won't slap us with a massive fee for a translation I've done of an epic poem by him! MPIT might be useful source of advice and guidance, as well as providing a rich source of poetry to which one would other wise not have access. Thanks for this link.

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  5. Fantastic! Thanks for pointing this out.

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