Modern Poetry in Translation



Modern Poetry in Translation is a literary magazine and publisher based in the United Kingdom dedicated to publishing contemporary poetry from all around the world, in English.

History
The magazine was founded by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort in 1965, because they both felt a need to get poetry out from behind The Iron Curtain. They aimed to benefit writers and the reading public in Britain and America by confronting them with good work from abroad.

For more than 40 years MPT has continued and widened that founding intent.MPT builds on the first editors’ extraordinary achievement. It affirms the vital importance of poetry in the modern world. It brings the best new translations, essays and reviews that address such characteristic signs of our times as exile, the movement of peoples, the search for asylum, and the speaking of languages outside their native home.

The editors of the Third Series (2002-2012), David and Helen Constantine, sought to widen and diversify the whole idea and practice of translation. They published transformations and metamorphoses of all kinds: down the ages, across the frontiers and cultures. They increased the rate and scope of MPT’s linked activities such as translation workshops, poetry pamphlets and public poetry readings here and abroad.In 2013 the editorship of MPT passes to Sasha Dugdale. The magazine, the institution and the community will continue to grow. From 2013 the magazine will be issued three times a year, and in a new layout and design – one that hearkens back to the original iconic designs of the 1960s and 70s. We will continue to publish the very best of world poetry in translation, and in each issue we will have a short focus or a ‘thread’ around the poetry of a culture or country.