Translated by Abigail Parry and Serafina Vick

This week’s podcast brings you ‘I must ask you’ & ‘Mad Dog Pack’ both translated by Abigail Parry and Serafina Vick for Legna Rodríguez Iglesias’ PTC publication ‘A little body are many parts’ which brings together poems from seven different collections of Legna’s poetry.

The collection has been shortlisted for the first annual Derek Walcott Prize for a full-length book of poems published in 2019 by a living poet who is not a US citizen along with another PTC title the hammer and other poems by Adelaide Ivanova. Get both books at a discounted price here with our Derek Walcott Prize Bundle.

You can find out more about the translation process on the PTC blog, were one of the translators Serafina Vick has written a piece called ‘Mistrustful Trust – Musings on Translating Legna Rodriguez Iglesias‘.

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