Some of Arc's Poets and Translators

HABIB TENGOUR was born at Mostaganem in 1947. Poet, writer and anthropologist, he has constantly moved back and forth between France and Algeria. [...more]

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• The Parley Tree, ed. Patrick Williamson

D. M. Black is a Scottish poet, born in South Africa in 1941, brought up in Scotland from 1950. He now lives in London and Wiltshire. He has continued to be anthologised since appearing in the first series of Penguin Modern Poets in 1968. [...more]

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• Claiming Kindred
• The Arrow-Maker

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• In Praise of Reconnecting
• Mr. Greenway's Instructions
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at Birmingham

AMADOU LAMINE SALL lives in Senegal. He has been honoured with the Grand Prix of the Académie française and is widely published in Africa, France, Germany and Canada. [...more]

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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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Virág Erdos was born in Budapest in 1968. She writes poems, short stories and plays. [...more]

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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

Manuel Forcano (born Barcelona, 1968) has a PhD in Semitic Philology. He completed his studies in Israel, Syria and Egypt, and has worked as a lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic at the University of Barcelona (1996-2004). He has worked as a researcher and playwright at the Jordi Savall Early Music International Centre Foundation since 2004. [...more]

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• Six Catalan Poets, ed. Pere Ballart
• Maps of Desire

SHAMS NADIR is the pseudonym of Tunisian poet and novelist Mohammed Aziza, born in 1940. [...more]

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• The Parley Tree, ed. Patrick Williamson

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

Matthew Hollis works as a poetry editor. His collection Ground Water (Bloodaxe, 2004) was short-listed for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, the Guardian First Book Award and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. [...more]

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• New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation, ed. George Szirtes

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• Barefoot Souls, Maram al-Masri

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]

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• The Parley Tree, ed. Patrick Williamson

Manuela Palacios is Senior Lecturer of English Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. [...more]

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• Six Galician Poets

Paul Dakeyo, and may others, express the horror of those blody régimes whose ruthless pursuit of power became a feature of African politics. His poetry denounces injustice and abuse of every kind, and calls for reconciliation worldwide. [...more]

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• The Parley Tree, ed. Patrick Williamson

Hrachya Sarukhan was born in 1947 in Armenia. In 1963 he started attending the Terlemezyan state school of fine arts. He has worked as a teacher, head of the literature and philosophy sections of the Institute of Pedagogy, head of the literature section of H. Abelyan theatre. He has also worked in the press. [...more]

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• Six Armenian Poets, ed. Razmik Davoyan

Writer Owen Sheers was born in Fiji in 1974 and brought up in Abergavenny, South Wales. [...more]

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• New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation, ed. George Szirtes

Kevin Maynard is a retired teacher living in Chichester in the UK, having spent three and a half decades teaching English, Mandarin and other subjects in a range of schools. [...more]

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• The Iron Flute: War Poetry from Ancient & Medieval China

Brought up in South Wales, Richard Gwyn is a poet, novelist, translator and essayist. [...more]

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• Sad Giraffe Café

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• Acrobats
• The Past, Again
• The Road Not Taken

Anatoli Hovhannisyan completed his studies in Philology at Yerevan state university. He has published two collections of poetry Warm Country (2000), Mirror (2010). He has also compiled and edited several books, and has been awarded numerous prizes. [...more]

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• Six Armenian Poets, ed. Razmik Davoyan

Krystyna Miłobędska was born in Margonin, Poland, in 1932. She is the author of eleven books of poetry. Her 'collected' appeared in 2006 and in 2010. [...more]

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• Nothing More

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