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Translated by Rachel Long & Francisco.
This week’s poem ‘the good animal’ by Adelaide Ivánova. First, you will hear the poet, journalist and activist Adelaide Ivánova discussing the poem and reading her original Portuguese text, then her poet-translator, the UK poet Rachel Long will read the English version.
You can buy an introduction to Adelaide Ivánova’s poetry ‘the hammer and other poems’ translated by Rachel Long & Francisco Vilhena from the PTC online store.
This is part of our new rebranded weekly release: the Dual Poetry Podcast, one poem in two languages from the Poetry Translation Centre. As ever we will be releasing a translated poem each week.
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