Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.3) Metamorphoses Tsvetanka Elenkova

Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.3) Metamorphoses Tsvetanka ElenkovaMetamorphoses seeks to extend the very idea of translation, and features texts which translators have transformed from a foreign original into something that is peculiarly their own. Highlights include versions of Akhmatova done by outstanding contemporary poets for Poetry International at the South Bank in 2004, as well as Ingeborg Bachmanns War Diary, a moving document of her early life in terrible times. This volume of MPT gives a voice to the

Margaret Obank: Bab el-Oued by Merzak Allouache

IRON and of course Bloodaxe

which he claims to have witnessed in Florence

poverty and repression in pursuit of ‘US interests’

translated

bluesy complaints and cries of pain

by John Manson

James Kirkup La Serment des barbares by Boualem Sansal

which my mother has stuffed with live sable is

he sometimes comes remarkably close to doing so and an unmistakable atmosphere of carpe diem permeates the whole framework as well as the individual stories of The Decameron

compassion and insight

but others obliquely and movingly mime uncertainty