Some of Arc's Poets and Translators

The Mexican poet Pedro Serrano has published five collections of poems. [...more]

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• Peatlands

Hailing from Vehkalahti, now a part of Hamina, Henriikka Tavi's (b.1978) first book Esim. Esa (Teos 2007) won the prestigious Helsingin Sanomat first book prize. [...more]

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• Six Finnish Poets, ed. Teemu Manninen

Maung Yu Py (b. 1981) was born in Myeik, a significant port town formerly known as Mergui, on the coast of an island on the Andaman Sea in the extreme south of Burma. He earned a degree in law in 2006 and published his first collection in 2000, The Bird that was Killed when the Sky Capsized, [...more]

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• Bones Will Crow, ed. ko ko thett and James Byrne

Jordi Julià (born Sant Celoni, 1972) is a poet, essayist and professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He specializes in the study of contemporary literature and his critical works have received both national and international awards. [...more]

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• Six Catalan Poets, ed. Pere Ballart

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• Bigger than the Facts, Jan Baeke

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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• The Parley Tree, ed. Patrick Williamson

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• Window-cleaner Sees Paintings, Menno Wigman
• The Lonely Funeral, ed. F. Starik
• Beautiful Things, Menno Wigman

Born in Jyväskyl&228; in 1971, Vesa Haapala moved around Finland until settling
in the capitol area. His first book Vantaa (Otava 2007), which received the
Kalevi Jäntti prize, was named after the town he lives in. [...more]

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• Six Finnish Poets, ed. Teemu Manninen

Massieu's extensive writings included translations from ancient Greek and studies of classical and modern literature and culture. In his lifetime, and for long afterwards, however, he was best known as a writer of Latin, and particularly as a writer of Latin verse, and his poem on coffee was published several times, in the original Latin and in various translations, in the century and a half after his death. [...more]

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• Coffee: A Poem

Elies Barberà (born Xativa, 1970) is an actor and a poet. His most recent publication is entitled En la Primavera perpetua (In Perpetual Spring, 2010), a play made up of poetic texts. [...more]

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• Six Catalan Poets, ed. Pere Ballart

Immanuel Mifsud was born in Malta in 1967. He writes poetry and prose and also children's literature. [...more]

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• The Play of Waves

Michelle Cahill was born in Kenya, lived in the UK and resides in Sydney. Her poems have been widely anthologised. [...more]

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• The Herring Lass

Mara Bergman grew up in Wantagh, New York, and graduated from the State University of New York at Oneonta. [...more]

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• The Disappearing Room

Lakshmi Holmström is a writer and translator. She has translated short stories, novels and poetry by the major contemporary writers in Tamil. [...more]

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• Lost Evenings, Lost Lives

Atar Hadari was born in Israel, raised in England, trained as an actor and writer at the University of East Anglia before winning a scholarship to study poetry and playwrighting with Derek Walcott at Boston University. [...more]

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• Lives of the Dead: Collected Poems, Hanoch Levin

Orbita is a creative collective / group of Latvian poets writing in Russian whose works are dedicated to dialogue between various creative genres (literature, music, video, photography, VJ, web, etc.) and cultures. The collective was founded 1999 in Riga. [...more]

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• Orbita: The Project

Pippa Little is a poet, editor, reviewer and tutor. She lives in Northumberland
and works as a Royal Literary Fellow at Newcastle University. [...more]

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• Twist

Kit Fan was born in Hong Kong and moved to the UK at the age of 21. He studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong before completing a doctoral thesis on Thom Gunn at the University of York. As well as being a published poet, he also writes fiction. [...more]

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• As Slow As Possible

Pandora (b. 1974) is from Burma delta. Her precocious literary talent has earned her several awards at poetry readings and essay competitions since her school days. As an English major at Rangoon University, she wrote poems and short stories for campus magazines under several pen names. [...more]

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• Bones Will Crow, ed. ko ko thett and James Byrne

Anna Crowe was born in Plymouth in 1945. She spent part of her childhood in France, and read French and Spanish at the University of St Andrews. Married with three grown-up children, she now lives and works in St Andrews.

In 1998 Anna Crowe was involved in establishing the StAnza poetry festival in St Andrews, acting first as chair of the organizing committee and then for seven years as the artistic director. She remains on the Board of Trustees of the festival. [...more]

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• Six Catalan Poets, ed. Pere Ballart
• Peatlands, Pedro Serrano
• Lunarium, Josep Lluís Aguiló
• Not on the Side of the Gods
• Maps of Desire, Manuel Forcano

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