With a PhD in Number Theory, Chinese poet Cai Tianxin employs his “Heart of a Poet—诗人的心” to write about Switzerland and India. Sudeep Sen presents thirteen poems he translated with the poet.
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World Poetry Portfolio #40: Zoran Anchevski
Sudeep Sen presents poems by Macedonian poet Zoran Anchevski about translating the dead, “the peeled orange” of the moon, and stammering “before / the g-g-gates of Babylon.”
World Poetry Portfolio #37: Naomi Shihab Nye
Sudeep Sen presents nine poems by Naomi Shihab Nye, including two from her forthcoming book Transfer and seven that appear for the first time.
World Poetry Portfolio #33: David Kinloch
Sudeep Sen presents poems by Glaswegian David Kinloch, featuring Cain’s wife, Deborah, Hannah, and King David’s “dick like a didgeri doo.”
World Poetry Portfolio #31: Simon Smith
Sudeep Sen presents selections from Simon Smith’s forthcoming short book Gravesend, based around train journeys along the north Kent coast, as well as selections from his Odes.
World Poetry Portfolio #21: Nathalie Handal
In a series of prose poems, Nathalie Handal explores the cultural diversity of New York on the 7-Train in Queens. Sudeep Sen’s selection of the international poet’s work also includes four other poems.
World Poetry Portfolio #20: Ciaran O’Driscoll
Ciaran O’Driscoll is “a poet in confident possession and exercise of his craft. [His] poems do what good poems should do, widening and deepening the world for the rest of us.” This showcase of his work features eleven poems selected by Sudeep Sen.
World Poetry Portfolio #19: John F. Deane
Sudeep Sen presents eleven poems by one of contemporary Ireland’s most decorated poets, whose “solemn, gravid poems” must “be heard to be believed.”
World Poetry Portfolio #18: Ruth Fainlight
These twelve original poems by American-born Briton Ruth Fainlight, wife of the late Alan Sillitoe and recipient of most major English-language poetry awards, were selected by Sudeep Sen to accompany Jenny Lewis’ exclusive interview with Fainlight.
World Poetry Portfolio #17: Richard Price
Glaswegian poet Richard Price was one of the founding Informationalists, an influential group of Scottish poets whose work foregrounded information technology. Sudeep Sen has selected eleven poems from his three Carcanet collections and unpublished work.
World Poetry Portfolio #16: Christopher Merrill
Sudeep Sen’s selections from the work of Christopher Merrill, director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, poet, translator, and non-fiction writer, whose work has been translated into over twenty-five languages.
World Poetry Portfolio #10: Fiona Sampson
Fiona Sampson was first a concert violinist, then studied at the Universities of Oxford, where she won the Newdigate Prize, and Nijmegen, where she received a PhD in the philosophy of language. She is currently editor of Poetry Review
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The Prodigal Son: A Microscript by Robert Walser
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The Literature of Justice
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Writing without Writing: On Mario Bellatin
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Beneath My Olive Tree with Lorca: Poetry by Mahmoud Darwish
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Three Poems from Cuba
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The Black Olive Tree and Other Memories
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Offerings to the God of Attention: Recent Literary Events in Bali and Australia
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World Prose Portfolio #7: Dennis Walder
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Burning Deck: Introducing an Appreciation
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World Prose Portfolio #6: Sunetra Gupta
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