Some of Arc's Poets and Translators

Gemma Gorga i Lopez (born Barcelona, 1968) has a PhD in Philology from the University of Barcelona, where she works as a teacher. Her work is focused primarily in the field of Medieval and Renaissance literature. She has published four collections of poetry. [...more]

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• Six Catalan Poets, ed. Pere Ballart

István Kemény entered university to study law, but switched to Hungarian literature and history, graduating in these subjects in 1993. In his early poetry collections he continued the prevailing trends of decadence and symbolism. He won two literary prizes while still in his twenties. [...more]

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

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

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]

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

Maung Pyiyt Min (b. 1953) was born in Rangoon. He has happily travelled through all the major epochs of Burmese poetry, from the post-war foursyllable era to more recent modern and postmodern times. He believes that poethood is the noblest of all human occupations. [...more]

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

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

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

A teacher of English and Hungarian who has translated poets from Simon Armitage to Seamus Heaney. She has published three volumes of her own poetry. [...more]

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Antônio Moura was born in 1963 in Belém, capital of the state of Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon. [...more]

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• Silence River

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

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• Six Latvian Poets, ed. Ieva Lesinska

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• 'see what remains of predators?'

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

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Swiss / Italian poet, translator, essayist and scholar. [...more]

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• Days Full of Caves & Tigers

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• Deposition

Ieva Lesinska works in Riga as chief translator at the Bank of Latvia, and as a free-lance journalist and translator. She has translated the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Robert Frost, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot and various American Beat Generation poets into Latvian, and has published numerous English translations of poems and prose by Latvian authors in periodicals and anthologies in the UK and the US. [...more]

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• Six Latvian Poets
• Come to Me, Karlis Verdinš

Kata Kulakova is a Macedonian poet, theoretician of literature and literary essayist. [...more]

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• Six Macedonian Poets, ed. Igor Isakovski

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• A Macedonian Tale

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

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

Antony Rowland (b.1970) is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Poetry at MMU. [...more]

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• M

In addition to his work as a poet, essayist, and educator, Martinaitis is highly respected in Lithuania as a social activist and one of the first members of the Lithuanian grassroots political movement Saj?dis. [...more]

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• The Ballads of Kukutis

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• Spending the Night at Kukutis's Farm
• Kukutis in Forced Labour
• Kukutis Beats the Agent's Dog

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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A London-born poet, translator and playwright. [...more]

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

From her prize-winning first book Boy with a Telescope to her CD, Laughing in Greek, Jan Owen's work reveals a wide-ranging intellectual curiosity and a sure command of line and voice. [...more]

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• Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire

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