Ted Hughes and Translation Khalil al-Neimi

Ted Hughes and Translation Khalil al-NeimiTed Hughes and Daniel Weissbort, as co founders of the quarterly magazine Modern Poetry in Translation, had a working relationship over many years. Weissbort provides a unique insight into Hughess views on translation and on his interest in making accessible the work of foreign language poets and classical drama. "Poetry is less and less a prisoner of its own language", Hughes wrote, inaugurating the first Poetry International. With many examples,

For asking you to read the thing

Every voice entirely captivating: page to page

human beings are to be helped

A fifteen year old girl has a crush on her young English teacher

Uroš Zupan and Jure Jacob

"Fifty-five years seperate the oldest from the youngest poet which makes a gratifying sense of an evolving

• Jenny Joseph

My Darling Dog

His debut collection is gritty and irreverent

stay in those days

This is his ninth collection of poetry

of its grammar