Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.17) Parnassus Paul Howard

Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.17) Parnassus Paul HowardThe Spring 2012 issue of MPT will be largely given over to a collaboration with Poetry Parnassus the Southbank Centres celebration of the 2012 London Olympics. My hunch is this will be the biggest poetry event ever a truly global coming together of poets. Simon Armitage Parnassus was a sacred site for the whole Greek world; Delphi, below that mountain, was the navel of the earth, and for the duration of the Olympics a truce was declared so that

He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta

Polis Loizou

He is the author of a series of widely published texts – poems

was published by Y Lolfa in 2010

a toppling Statue of Liberty

Abdulaziz Al Farsi – Excerpt from Weeping Earth

‘Aulis’

With tender expansiveness that Jane Hirshfield says calls to mind “Whitman’s America’s future” and his “unquestionable sense of music” (Kwame Dawes)

Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi

James Knox Whittet is a poet who grew up on the Scottish island of Islay

Fatima al-Mazrouei – Two short stories

Susan Millar DuMars writes with compassion and clarity about the terminal illness and death of a family member