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Our very special collaboration with the Stephen Spender Prize! The Stephen Spender Trust runs an annual competition for poetry in translation, doing very important work promoting translation in the UK. Give this episode a listen to hear the winning poem from the 2021 Open category winner, Harry Man, as well as interviews with Harry and the original Norwegian poet, Endre Ruset, and with judge Khairani Barokka, for an insight into what it is like behind the scenes of the biggest poetry translation...
In this very special episode we share the results of our very own translation competition! Thanks to funding from the University of St Andrews School of Modern Languages, we were able to focus on the work of three non-anglophone poets working in the world today, and challenge anyone in the world to translate their poems into English. In this episode, you’ll hear the winning translations, as well as an interview with all three poets about working as a non-anglophone poet, about translation, and a...
In this episode we talk about Faiz Ahmed Faiz, a super famous poet who wrote in Urdu and Punjabi. His poetry was innovative and timeless, and the poem we've focused on is the celebrated ہم دیکھیں گے - Hum Dekhenge - We Shall See. We then talk to the brilliant Dr. Rakhshanda Jalil. _____________ Hum Dhekenge: ہم دیکھیں گے لازم ہے کہ ہم بھی دیکھیں گے وہ دن کے جس کا وعدہ ہے جو لوحِ ازل پہ لکھا ہے ہم دیکھیں گے جب ظلم و ستم کے کوہِ گراں روئی کی طرح اُ ڑ جائیں گے ہم محکوموں کے پاوٗں تلے یہ دھرتی دھڑ د...
Feb 28, 2021•36 min
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