Poets

Angkarn Chantatip

Is a poet from Thailand who writes in Thai.

Angkarn Chantatip was born in Khon Kaen province, in the north-east of Thailand. He has published four books of poetry: The Lover of Sadness, Paradise Descending to Red, Where We Stand and, most recently, The Road and the Resting Place.

He is a member of the group of poets known as 'Poets ahead of Ram', 'Ram' being short for Ramkhamhaeng - the  name of a university in Bangkok.

Poems we've translated

• Houses and People
• In the Home of the Homeless
• No Gifts from War
• Other People's Hell, Other People's Heaven