Tag Archives: Poetry

China Publisher Withdraws Vulgar Translation Of Rabindranath Tagore’s Poetry

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Zhejiang Wenyi Publishing House, the publisher of the translation, announced that it would pull the books off bookshelves and websites, and recall the sold ones. (Photo: Rabindranath Tagore)

Beijing:  A publisher in China hurriedly withdrew a Chinese translation of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s “Stray Birds,” after facing flak from literary critics who termed the racy translation of the classic as “blasphemy” and “cultural terrorism”. Continue reading

Rountable on the Poetry of Xu Lizhi

by JEN FITZGERALD on DECEMBER 14, 2014

When Xu Lizhi committed suicide on September 30, 2014, he left a substantial body of work for his brief 24 years.
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Literary Activism: is poetry the strongest form of protest?

July 20 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | £8/£4

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Poets from around the globe share their views and personal experiences as part of the Poetry International Festival at London’s Southbank Centre. Continue reading

Recommended Reading: Poetry in Translation

PUBLISHED ON JUNE 16, 2014

Over the next month, PEN will be highlighting titles that have been longlisted for the 2014 PEN Literary Awards as a helpful guide for your summer reading. Continue reading

The Transformative Effect of Color in the Poetry of Tomas Tranströmer

June 10, 2014 Noah B. Salamon


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Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer is a poet of great Continue reading

The edgily modern poetry of Najwan Darwish

Sarah Irving The Electronic Intifada 27 May 2014

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With this collection of Najwan Darwish’s poetry — beautifully translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid — The New York Review of Books has made available to English-language readers the work of one of Arabic literature’s Continue reading