Some of Arc's Poets and Translators

Doris Kareva, poet

"Doris Kareva observes the anguish of existence and experience in a style that is pared-back, bone-clean, needle-sharp. Her work has indeed the notation of the music of inwardness, of its despairs and its mediating flashes of illumination. And thus her poetry has its being in a time and place where past, present and future exist simultaneously." [...more]

See:: Shape of Time

Read:: 'The dog with a third eye...'; 'The days melt...'; 'The suit of light...'; 'Poetry is the dance of language...'; Shape of Time

Amina Saïd, poet

AMINA SAÏD was born in Tunisia in 1953. She teaches English literature in Paris. One of the leading Arab women poets writing in French, Amina Saïd has published around a dozen collections of poetry a [...more]

See:: The Parley Tree, Patrick Williamson

Cliff Forshaw, poet

Cliff Forshaw left school at sixteen and worked in an abattoir before studying painting at art college and developing an interest in languages and literatures. After working in Spain, Mexico, Italy, Germany, New York and London, he completed his doctorate on Renaissance Literature at Oxford. Since then he has lived in Snowdonia, and taught at Bangor and now Hull University.

Cliff has been International Writer-in-Residence at Hobart, Tasmania, winner of the Welsh Academi John Tripp Award, Blue Nose Poet-of-the-Year, twice a Hawthornden Writing Fellow and a Djerassi Resident Artist in California. [...more]

See:: Vandemonian

Moe Zaw, poet

Moe Zaw (b. 1964) put his ‘fountain nib on a blank sheet of paper for a poem for the first time’ in 1978. His debut collection Will was published in 2007 [...more]

See:: Bones Will Crow, ko ko thett and James Byrne

Tanella Boni, poet

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TANELLA BONI was born and brought up in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, before going to university in Toulouse and then Paris. She is now a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Abidjan (Cocody). [...more]

See:: The Parley Tree, Patrick Williamson

Tchicaya U Tam'si, poet

TCHICAYA U TAM'SI (1931-1988) was born in Mpili (Congo Brazzaville), but moved to France in 1946 where he died, in Oise, in 1988. U Tam'si's poetry is colloquial and spoken. [...more]

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Kunwar Narain, poet

"Kunwar Narain is one of the finest Hindi poets of his generation, a meditative poet of unsurpassed brilliance... there is a fundamental honesty in his oeuvre... there is little doubt that he is one of the great poets of world literature, in the same league as a Szymborska, Milosz, or Heaney..." [...more]

See:: No Other World: Selected Poems

Read:: The Key to Success; Princes; The Killing of a Tree; If I Return This Time

Nimrod, poet

Nimrod says that he writes as a witness of the war that made him flee his home country and to rend homage to his mother, his childhood and the wonder of language itself. [...more]

See:: The Parley Tree, Patrick Williamson

Eaindra, poet

Eaindra (b. 1973) was born in the Irrawaddy delta. Since publishing her first chapbook at the age of twenty she has been regarded as one of the most outstanding Burmese poets of her generation. [...more]

See:: Bones Will Crow, ko ko thett and James Byrne

Clare Pollard, translator

A poet, playwright and editor currently living in London. [...more]

See:: New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation, George Szirtes

Khin Aung Aye, poet

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Khin Aung Aye (b. 1956) was born and raised in Rangoon, where he attended the university. He now lives in Bangkok, but is known outside South East Asia from readings in England, Germany, Finland and at literary festivals in South Korea. [...more]

See:: Bones Will Crow, ko ko thett and James Byrne

István László Géher, poet

Hungarian poet and translator - his translations of Plath, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Hughes and Yeats have appeared widely in journals and anthologies. [...more]

See:: New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation, George Szirtes

Babacar Sall, poet

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BABACAR SALL is Maître de conférences at the University of Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, where he carries out research in Egyptology and on ancient Africa in general. [...more]

See:: The Parley Tree, Patrick Williamson

George Gömöri, translator

A Hungarian-born prize-winning poet and academic who has been living in England since 1956. [...more]

See:: New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation, George Szirtes

Edouard Maunick, poet

Photo: Olivier Maunick

EDOUARD MAUNICK was born in Mauritius in 1931. He has been, successively, author and producer of radio programmes, TV presenter, editor of Jeune Afrique, a director at UNESCO and Mauritian Ambassador to Pretoria. [...more]

See:: The Parley Tree, Patrick Williamson

Maris Salejs, poet

Maris Salejs (real name Marians Rizijs) is a poet, artist, and scholar from Riga. [...more]

See:: Six Latvian Poets, Ieva Lesinska

Read:: 'see what remains of predators?'

Jovica Ivanovski, poet

Ivanovski is a long time member of the Independent Writers of Macedonia. He lives and works in Skopje. [...more]

See:: Six Macedonian Poets, Igor Isakovski

Read:: Funeral

Ian Crockatt, translator

Ian Crockatt lives with his ceramic artist wife Wenna on a small croft in the North East of Scotland. He has published several collections of his own poetry, and has been a prize winner in a number of national literary competitions, and was awarded Writer’s Bursaries by the Scottish Arts Council in 2004 and 2008. [...more]