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Modern Poetry in Translation

URL

https://modernpoetryintranslation.com/

Place of publication

London, England, UK

Year of first publication

1965

Range of issues

No. 1 (1965?) -no. 44 (winter 1981/82); 1983.

ISSN

0026-8291

0969-3572

EISSN

2052-3017

Note

Continued by _Modern Poetry in Translation_ (New Series) 1 (1991) – 22 (2003), published by King's College London. The Third Series 1 (2004) - 18 (2012) ended when its editors David and Helen Constantine stopped. The journal has continued thereafter, with new numbering by year (2013-today) and by issue within the year.

CENSUS entries

4 ( 1968)

pp. [2]-[11] Seferis, George. "Three Secret Poems: "On a Winter Light-beam" | "On Stage" | "Summer Solstice""
Poetry
pp. [11]-[14] Embiricos, Andreas. "From 'The City's Vertebrae' in Hinterland"
Poetry
pp. [14]-[22] Ritsos, Yannis. Twelve Poems for Cavafy | from Testimonies I (1963) | from Testimonies II (1966)
Poetry
pp. [22]-[31] Elytis, Odysseus. "Seven Nocturnals" from Orientations (1940) | 6 fragments from Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Lost Second Lieutenant of Albania, 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 13 | from Six and One Regrets for the Sky: "The Sleep of the Brave" | "Laconic" | "The Origin of the Landscape" | "The Other Noah" | "Seven Days to Eternity"
Poetry
pp. [31]-[38] Sinopoulos, Takis. "When I am struggling with a poem …" | "Above the Seasons" | "The Voice Came" | "Loss" | "Coin" | "Question" | "Anniversary" | "The Evil Day" | "Deathfeast"
Poetry
pp. [38]-[42] Vakalo, Eleni. Genealogy
Poetry

34 (Summer 1978)

pp. 5-6 Themelis, George. "Wedding Song" | "Orchard", I | "The journey that ended has not ended ..."
Poetry
pp. 6-7 Karelli, Zoi. "The Procession of the Poets" | "Endymion"
Poetry
p. 7 Boumi-Papa, Rita. "Autobiographical Remains" | "Vestry of Memory"
Poetry
pp. 8-9 Melissanthi. "Nausea" | "In the Night That Comes" | "Persephone" | "The Foreigner" | "Fruits of Another Season"
Poetry
pp. 9-10 Vakalo, Eleni. "Song of the Hangings" | "Dirge"
Poetry
pp. 10-11 Karouzos, Nikos. "The Three Lined Verses of the Mortals" | "Yianni in Spring"
Poetry
pp. 12-14 Dimoula, Kiki. "Jungle" | "Sign of Recognition. Statue of a Woman with Tied Hands" | "Photograph 1948" | "Mime"
Poetry
p. 12 Pappa, Lena. "Excavation" | "Youthful Memory" | "Determination of Worth"
Poetry
pp. 14-16 Issaia, Nana. "The Magician" | "Photographic Couple" | "Night"
Poetry
pp. 17-19 Anghelaki Rooke, Katerina. "In the World Where I Was Born One Loses Everything" | "Teacher-Winter" | "Time for One in Love" | "Maybe All This Passion Is Just Coldness" | "The Last Light" | "Love and the World" | "The Entrails and the Rest"
Poetry
pp. 19-21 Poulios, Lefteris. "Introduction" | "Athens" | "A Mirror" | "The Box" | "A Thing"
Poetry
p. 21 Mastoraki, Tzeni. "A Final Conversation"
Poetry
pp. 21-22 Vayenas, Nasos. "From Biography": IV, VIII; IX, XVI"
Poetry

New Series 3 (Summer 1993)

pp. 101-104 Anghelaki-Rooke, Katerina. "In This House Fulfilling Time"
Poetry
pp. 105-106 Davetas, N.G. "Someone Rents Your Body for Nine Months" | "Escape from Sodom" | "Bohemian Autumn" | "Homecoming"
Poetry

New Series 6 (Winter 1994-95)

pp. 160-166 Anghelaki-Rooke, Katerina. "War Diary" | "The Other Light"
Poetry
pp. 167-169 Patilis, Yiannis. "Return to the Acropolis"| "A Soldier's Dream in an Apartment in Patissia" | "Attempt against Silence" | "The Song Never Stops"
Poetry
pp. 170-173 Chouliaras, Yiorgos. "The Facts" | "The Astronaut's Wife" | "Oralists and Writers"
Poetry

New Series 8 (Autumn 1995)

pp. 167-173 Elytis, Odysseus. "Three Poems from The Oxopetra Elegies"
Poetry

New Series 9 (Summer 1996)

pp. 130-135 Dimoula, Kiki. "[Five Poems from Lethe's Adolescence]"
Poetry
pp. 136-139 Kondos, Yannis. "Hide and Seek" | "Wool-embroidery-threads" | "Beside the Waters" | "No Change in the Weather" | "Rally" | "Transformations" | "X-Ray"
Poetry

New Series 11 ( 1997)

pp. 169-172 Kavvadias, Nikos. "Armida" | "Cambay's Water" | "Mal du départ" | "Marea"
Poetry

New Series 13 ( 1998)

pp. 13-15 Sikelianos, Angelos. "Pindar's Dante" | "Letter III"
Poetry
pp. 21-22 Calas, Nicolas. "Santorini VII" | "Cavafy" | "The Dream"
Poetry
pp. 28-30 Anagnostakis, Manolis. "A Day Will Come..." | "Love is the Fear" | "Now, I Speak Again"
Poetry
pp. 33-34 Patrikios, Titos. "A Town in Southern Greece" | "Loves" | "My Language" | "Via Dei Coronari 123"
Poetry
pp. 35-36 Ioannou, George. "While I Was Out" | "Lucky You, Lucky You" | "Heliotropes for the Tropes" | "The Lesson"
Poetry
pp. 38-39 Aslanoglou, Nikos-Alexis. "Song of Mourning: Epanomi" | "Graves at Ayia Paraskevi" | "Dry Dock"
Poetry
pp. 40-41 Kondos, Yannis. "Movie Theatre in the Arcade" | "At the Cape of My Bed"
Poetry
pp. 42-45 Ganas, Michalis. "The Blue that Enfolds You" | "My Days and My Nights" | "Emergency Entrance" | "I Want to Be Buried in Chafteia" | "Now and All These Years" | "In Memory of K.G. Karyotakis"
Poetry
pp. 46-47 Vayenas, Nasos. "Dialectic" | "Après le déluge" | "Flyer's Fall"
Poetry
pp. 48-52 Galanaki, Rhea. "Albeit Pleasing"
Poetry
pp. 53-55 Chionis, Argyris. "Esotic Landscapes" | "On Knives"
Poetry
pp. 56-57 Vlavianos, Haris. "In Triumph" | "De Imagine Mundi"
Poetry
pp. 58-59 Stamatis, Alexis. "The Lake"
Poetry

New Series 15 ( 1999)

p. 231 Anghelakis, Andreas. "Cartesian Logic"
Poetry
pp. 232-233 Sahtouris, Miltos. "Maria" | "And Now the Woman"
Poetry
pp. 234-235 Leondaris, Byron. "Speak to Me of Starlit Nights"
Poetry
pp. 236-240 Anghelaki-Rooke, Katerina. "Sadleigh: A Poem"
Poetry

New Series 18 ( 2001)

pp. 27-28 Cavafy. "A Half-hour" | "Desires" | "Insomnia" | "The Walls"
Poetry

New Series 21 ( 2003)

pp. 149-153 Seferis, George. "Love's Discourse"
Poetry

3rd Series 2 ( 2004)

pp. 11-13 Ritsos, Yannis. "Fifteen Tristichs by Yannis Ritsos"
Poetry

3rd Series 4 ( 2005)

pp. 100-107 Tsaloumas, Dimitris. "Four Poems"
Poetry

3rd Series 5 ( 2006)

pp. 32-36 Angelakis, Andreas. "Constantine in Constantinople"
Poetry
pp. 37-39 Cavafy, Constantine. "Two Poems"
Poetry

3rd Series 7 ( 2007)

pp. 14-17 Ritsos, Yannis. "Twenty-eight of the Monochords"
Poetry

3rd Series 12 ( 2009)

p. 17 Ritsos, Yannis. "Tombs of Our Ancestors"
Poetry
pp. 18-21 Ritsos, Yannis. "Four Poems"
Poetry

3rd Series 14 ( 2010)

pp. 58-63 Vayenas, Nasos. "Five Poems"
Poetry

3rd Series 15 ( 2011)

pp. 75-78 Sampanis, Konstantinos. "Two Poems"
Poetry

3rd Series 18 ( 2012)

pp. 84-87 Ritsos, Yannis. "Four Poems after Yannis Ritsos"
Poetry

3rd Series 17 ( 2012)

pp. 20-24 Cavafy, Constantine. "Four Poems"
Poetry

3 ( 2014)

pp. 8-12 Sachtouris, Miltos. "Five Poems"
Poetry