Some of Arc's Poets and Translators

Ivana Milankov belongs to the first generation of poets from central and eastern Europe who were influenced by anti-establishment poetries - particularly from the USA - such as the Beats and, later on, the New York poets. Milankova acted as a translator for Allen Ginsberg through a tour of the former Yugoslavia and subsequently worked with him during a summer workshop in Colorado. [...more]

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• Dinner with Fish & Mirrors

Although brought up on a farm in upstate New York, Estonian was Tiina Aleman's first language. She has translated much of Doris Kareva's work - and has in turn been translated by Kareva; and she has worked with Estonian composer Juri Reinvere. [...more]

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• Shape of Time, Doris Kareva

One of Slovenia's most popular and successful women poets. [...more]

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• Ljubljana

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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

Astrid Alben is a new and original voice in English poetry, serious and uncompromising. [...more]

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• Ai! Ai! Pianissimo

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• Poem for Breakfast
• To The Highest Bidder
• The Empty Bath

Jos Smith was born in Canterbury, Kent in 1980. He lived in Liverpool and Nottingham for a time before settling in Devon where he works at the University of Exeter as a researcher. He is also the author of a critical study of the New Nature Writing and teaches and writes quite broadly on landscape and place in post-war British and Irish literature. [...more]

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• Subterranea

Zorica Petrović was born in Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia in 1976. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade in 2000, gaining a BA in English language and literature. [...more]

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• Dinner with Fish & Mirrors, Ivana Milankov

Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the most important poets of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his poetry is, alongside Goethe's, considered to be the pinnacle of German-language writing. [...more]

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• Pure Contradiction: Selected Poems

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• You, Never-arriving One

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

In 2002, Tin Moe won a Hellman and Hammett grant and in 2004 the Prince Claus Award for Literature in the Netherlands. Author of twenty-five books, eighteen of them poetry collections, he died in Los Angeles in 2007. [...more]

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

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]

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

A Northumberland poet, tutor, mentor and editor. [...more]

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• Kill The Radio, Dorothea Rosa Herliany
• A Balkan Exchange, ed. W. N. Herbert
• You are Her
• Reading the Flowers

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• Waiting with My Yellow Dog
• Frida Kahlo's Corset
• Two Sightings
• Kingfisher

Tamás Jónás is a Hungarian writer, born to a Roma family in the derelict city of Azd in Northern Hungary. [...more]

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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

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

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Juhana Vähänen (b. 1982, Jyväskylä) is a poet and prose writer from Helsinki. He spent his youth on a farm in Petäjävesi near Jyväskylä, and moved to Turku to study Finnish literature. [...more]

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Cheran was born in Alaveddy in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, and began writing poetry at a young age. His two early collections, together with an anthology of Tamil resistance poems, are all landmarks in contemporary Tamil poetry. In 1999 Cheran received a creative non-fiction award from the Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada. He is currently a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Windsor, Toronto, Canada. [...more]

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• In a Time of Burning

Ingmara Balode was born in Auce, Latvia and is a poet and translator. [...more]

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• Six Latvian Poets, ed. Ieva Lesinska

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• After the Deluge

KAMA SYWOR KAMANDA was born in Luebo in 1952. Forced to leave the Congo in 1977 due to his political activities, he lived in various European countries before settling in Luxembourg. [...more]

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• The Parley Tree, ed. Patrick Williamson

Anna T Szabó is a Romanian poet, writer and translator. She is currently the poetry editor of the literary journal The Hungarian Quarterly which publishes Hungarian literature and essays in English. [...more]

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• She Leaves Me

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