Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.15) Poetry and the StatePoetry matters, and it matters that poetry should be translated and move freely across the frontiers of time and space. These are the premises on which we edit and poets and translators from all over the world contribute to MPT. But we want the next issue to prove a truth we hold to be self evident: that poetry is necessary for a humane life. Some states encourage their poets, others ignore them, others imprison and murder them. We want to document

the small marvels of finches or ladybugs

Lawrence Sail

Shirley MacLaine

ecstatic utterances in what the author calls a neo-bhakti style

"The poems of Christopher Locke astound

of Literatur Nachrichten

He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1989

in the stables flies stir the air

and When Love Is Not Enough: New & Selected Poems (Salmon

Naguib Mahfouz Excerpts from Morning and Evening Talk

an essay and four prose poems

Also in 2001 he won the RTE