Sudeep Sen presents the poetry of Nikola Madzirov, who represented Macedonia at London’s 2012 Poetry Parnassus.
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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.
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 #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
World Poetry Portfolio #6: Nathan Hamilton
Sudeep Sen’s World Poetry Portfolio features the poetry of Nathan Hamilton.