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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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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World Poetry Portfolio #9: Carol Moldaw

Sudeep Sen’s World Poetry Portfolio featuring Carol Moldaw.

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World Poetry Portfolio #8: Arthur Sze

Sudeep Sen’s World Poetry Portfolio featuring Arthur Sze.

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World Poetry Portfolio #7: Alfred Corn

Sudeep Sen’s World Poetry Portfolio featuring Alfred Corn.

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World Poetry Portfolio #6: Nathan Hamilton

Sudeep Sen’s World Poetry Portfolio features the poetry of Nathan Hamilton.

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World Poetry Portfolio #5: Tamar Yoseloff

Sudeep Sen’s World Poetry Portfolio featuring new poems by Tamar Yoseloff.

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