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Modern Poetry in Translation Series Three, No. 8 © Modern Poetry in Translation 2007 and contributors ISBN 978-0-9545367-8-7 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Short Run Press, Exeter Editors: David and Helen Constantine Reviews Editor: Josephine Balmer Administrators: Deborah de Kock and Angela Holton Submissions should be sent in hard copy, with return postage, to David and Helen Constantine, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Queen’s College, Oxford, OX1 4AW. Unless agreed in advance, submissions by email will not be accepted. Only very exceptionally will we consider work that has already been published elsewhere. Translators are themselves responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions. Since we do sometimes authorize further publication on one or two very reputable websites of work that has appeared in MPT, the permissions should cover that possibility. Founding Editors: Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort Subscription Rates: (including postage) Single Issue UK Overseas £11 £13 / US$ 24 One year subscription (2 issues, surface mail) £22 £26 / US$ 52 Two year subscription (4 issues, surface mail) £40 £48 / US$ 96 To subscribe please use the subscription form at the back of the magazine. Discounts available. To pay by credit card please visit www.mptmagazine.com Modern Poetry in Translation is represented in UK by Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London, E9 5LN For orders: tel +44 (0) 845 458 9910 Fax +44 (0) 845 458 9912 or visit www.mptmagazine.com Modern Poetry in Translation Limited. A Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England and Wales, Number 5881603. UK Registered Charity Number 1118223.
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Contents 1 Editorial 5 The Next Issue of MPT 6 A Notice and Two Corrections 7 Bernardo Atxaga, two poems, translated by Margaret Jull Costa 12 Gabriela Mistral, ‘The Foreigner’, translated by Arthur McHugh 14 Niyati Keni, Poetry in Four Dimensions 22 Helen and David Constantine, A Language without Words 25 Alyss Dye, ‘Word Blindness’ 27 Moniza Alvi, ‘Writing at the Centre’ 29 Saradha Soobrayen, One Foot in England and one Foot in Mauritius 33 Oliver Reynolds, ‘Slip’ 34 Pascale Petit, ‘I was born in the Larzac’ 39 Annemarie Austin, ‘Dysphasias’ 43 Gregory Warren Wilson, three poems 47 Pedro Serrano, four poems from ‘Still Life’, translated by Anna Crowe 50 Stephanie Norgate, two haiku versions of Lucretius 54 Robin Fulton, four poems 57 Martha Kapos, two poems 60 Carole Satyamurti, three poems 63 Harry Martinson, five poems, translated by Robin Fulton

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Modern Poetry in Translation Series Three, No. 8 © Modern Poetry in Translation 2007 and contributors ISBN 978-0-9545367-8-7

Printed and bound in Great Britain by Short Run Press, Exeter

Editors: David and Helen Constantine Reviews Editor: Josephine Balmer Administrators: Deborah de Kock and Angela Holton

Submissions should be sent in hard copy, with return postage, to David and Helen Constantine, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Queen’s College, Oxford, OX1 4AW. Unless agreed in advance, submissions by email will not be accepted. Only very exceptionally will we consider work that has already been published elsewhere. Translators are themselves responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions. Since we do sometimes authorize further publication on one or two very reputable websites of work that has appeared in MPT, the permissions should cover that possibility.

Founding Editors: Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort

Subscription Rates: (including postage)

Single Issue

UK Overseas

£11 £13 / US$ 24

One year subscription (2 issues, surface mail) £22 £26 / US$ 52 Two year subscription (4 issues, surface mail) £40 £48 / US$ 96

To subscribe please use the subscription form at the back of the magazine. Discounts available.

To pay by credit card please visit www.mptmagazine.com

Modern Poetry in Translation is represented in UK by Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London, E9 5LN

For orders: tel +44 (0) 845 458 9910 Fax +44 (0) 845 458 9912 or visit www.mptmagazine.com

Modern Poetry in Translation Limited. A Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England and Wales, Number 5881603. UK Registered Charity Number 1118223.

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