Poetry

The Morning Tea

Morning Tea and Other Poemsβ€” Sabahattin Kudret Aksal

TRANSLATED FROM THE TURKISH BY NEIL P. DOHERTY     Β  This Morning I The sun stirred in your eyes and you awoke A bird in one palm, blue in the other II The map of your…...
Two hindi poems on resistance by Mohan Rana

Two Hindi Poemsβ€” Mohan Rana

Translated from the Hindi by Moulinath GoswamiΒ    Image used for representation.  AshesΒ  Riots resumed once the Peace March endedThis is the only news What I could have donewhat I am doingwhat I…...
Two Albanian poems by Luan Rama translated into English by Miranda Shehu-Xhilaga

Two Albanian Poemsβ€” Luan Rama

Translated from the Albanian by Miranda Shehu-XhilagaΒ    Image used for representation.   Elegy For Aegean Sea DollsΒ  For dolls, an elegy has never been written,an elegy mourning their dreams,butΒ  today on the…...
Ten Greek poems about cosmos and mythology by Yannis Yfandis

The Book Of Cosmos & Other Poemsβ€” Yannis Yfandis

Translated from the Greek by UraniaΒ    Image used for representation.  The Book Of CosmosΒ  Only one book has been writtenand has been written by things and not by words. Only…...
English translation of four unpublished Italian poems by Paolo Fichera

Four Unpublished Poemsβ€” Paolo Fichera

Translated from the Italian by Mikica PindzoΒ    Image used for representation.   Coming around, saturated with skinthe weaver, the apothecary amonghis grafts, in the art of the wheelinitiated by love,will be the…...
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Extracts From ‘To An Imaginary Lover’β€” Dominique Penez

Translated from the French by Patrick WilliamsonΒ    Image used for representation.  what is happinessΒ  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  if not a few moments to live with a heart that soarsto…...
Italian poetry from Scalene seasons by Edoardo Olmi

From ‘Scalene Seasons’β€” Edoardo Olmi

Translated from the Italian by Anna AresiΒ Β    Image used for representation.  SpringsΒ  plague spreaders’ gossip phase 1 we are banned from progressterminally ill in a civilizationwhere drones announce spring equinoxes…...
Four Bengali poems depicting abstraction in romance by Debarati Mitra

During The Kiss & Other Poemsβ€” Debarati Mitra

Translated from the Bengali by Nandini GuptaΒ    Image used for representation.  The Earth's Beauty, Alone They BothΒ  One leg resting a little high, beloved manfloats on the bed like an…...
Three romantic Bengali poems of love and nature by Tanushree Bag

Three Bengali Poemsβ€” Tanushree Bag

Translated from the Bengali by Moulinath Goswami   Image used for representation.  Over many dawns, I have had youβ€”this I feel; light comes, the first radianceof mist that has opened its…...