Akberen Yelgezek is a poet and public figure. He has held senior positions at various administrative and arts organisations. He is the first deputy chairman of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan. Yelgezek’s poems are distinguished by strikingly unusual images and surrealist expressions deriving from dreams and the subconscious rather than reason and logic. A […]
Yerlan Junis is a Kazakh poet and literary translator. His first poetry collection came out when he was still at school and was followed by several more. Junis’s lyrical verses are highly regarded by his literary colleagues for their unexpected surrealist images and their sincere, yet aristocratic expression of the human emotions. He has also […]
Bryar Bajalan is a writer, translator and filmmaker presently pursuing a PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. His work as a translator from the Arabic and Kurdish has appeared in Ambit, Modern Poetry in Translation and on the Poetry Foundation website, and his present projects include the translation of poets […]
Assiya Issemberdiyeva has worked for more than 10 years in various media specialising in film, theatre and literature reviews. She has translated films, cartoons and academic books from English and Russian into Kazakh. She is currently writing my MA dissertation on contemporary Kazakh cinema at Queen Mary University London.
Jon Stone is a Derbyshire-based writer, editor and lecturer. He was awarded an Eric Gregory Award in 2012, and his debut collection, School of Forgery (Salt, 2012) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. As an editor at Sidekick Books, he co-conceived and published Bad Kid Catullus, an anthology of modern, experimental translations of the Roman […]
Born in 1968, Maia Sarishvili studied pedagogy and currently teaches at a primary school. A mother of four children, she surprises audiences with her new sound in Georgian poetry, displaying a realistic and concrete touch that she refashions in her spiritual search for the nature and power of woman. Sarishvili has published poetry collections and […]
Phương Anh is a writer and translator from Vietnam, with works featured on Asymptote, Modern Poetry in Translation, PR&TA and in Here Was Once The Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Eco-Writing.
Helen Bowell is London-based poet and co-director of Dead [Women] Poets Society. In 2020, she co-guest-edited an issue of Modern Poetry in Translation (focus on dead women poets). She is a Ledbury Poetry Critic, and an alumna of The Writing Squad, Roundhouse Poetry Collective, London Writers Awards and London Library Emerging Writers programme. Her debut […]
Yahya Ashour was born in Gaza in 1998. His debut collection, You are a window, they are clouds, was published in 2018. He studied Sociology and Psychology at the University of Al-Azhar in Gaza.
Rodney Saint-Éloi is a Haitian-Canadian poet. Born and raised in Cavaellon, Haiti, he relocated to Montreal in 2001. He is a prolific poet and anthologist and he runs the publishing house Éditions Mémoire d’encrier. He was elected to the Académie des lettres du Québec in 2015 and was made a Compagnon de l’Ordre des Arts […]