Pre-order all four World Poet Series books for 2019
To celebrate the launch of our new World Poet Series we’re offering all four books for the price of three. Buy them together now and we’ll send them out to you as they’re published.
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the hammer and other poems
Award-winning poet Adelaide Ivánova’s unsettling work considers both sexualised violence and consensual sex, brilliantly translated by the poet Rachel Long and Francisco Vilhena.
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My Tenantless Body
Sichuanese poet Yu Yoyo’s sensitive yet forceful new voice leads us through the haunted nightscapes of China with dark wit, with translations by the poet A.K. Blakemore and Dave Haysom.
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So At One With You
‘So At One With You’ is a groundbreaking dual-language anthology of modern poetry in Somali by 18 different poets. Edited by UK poet W. N. Herbert and Said Jama Hussein.
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Ask the Thunder
Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac ‘Gaarriye’ is regarded as one of the most important Somali poets of the twentieth century, translated by the acclaimed poet W.N. Herbert and bridge-translator Martin Orwin.
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Akin to Stone
A collection of enthralling visceral poems by Kurdish poet Bejan Matur with electrifying translations from the Turkish by the T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Jen Hadfield and bridge-translator Canan Marasligil.
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Negative of a Group Photograph
Negative of a Group Photograph brings together three decades of poems by the leading Iranian poet Azita Ghahreman, translated by poet Maura Dooley and Elhum Shakerifar.
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I Wanted to Ask You
Salome Benidze is one of Georgia’s rising literary stars. In this selection of poems she explores romantic love and all its corollaries: longing, regret, trauma, confession, revelation, even war.
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Beginning to Speak
In Beginning to Speak, Georgian poet Diana Anphimiadi makes the world unfamiliar with the flick of a pen, demonstrating why she is one of her country’s outstanding contemporary poets.
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The Sea-Migrations
Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf is fast emerging as one of the most outstanding Somali poets. The poems in this Bloodaxe Books collection have been translated the English poet Clare Pollard.
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Catastrophe
Catastrophe is an electrifying poem by the Somali poet Xasan Daahir Weedhsame translated by British poet Daljit Nagra and scholar Martin Orwin and illustrated by the artist Bryan Talbot.
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If This is a Lament
A selection of poems by Bejan Matur, multi-award-winning Kurdish poet, translated by Jen Hadfield, renowned Shetland poet and artist who won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2008.
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History-Geography by Karin Karakaşlı
History-Geography contains a selection of poems by Armenian-Turkish poet Karin Karakaşlı translated by Sarah Howe, an acclaimed UK poet whose first collection won the T.S. Eliot Prize.
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A Monkey at The Window: Selected Poems by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi is one of the leading African poets writing in Arabic today. The Poetry Translation Centre and Bloodaxe Books are publishing his first full length collection in English.
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He Tells Tales of Meroe: Poems for the Petrie Museum
Poems by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, one of Africa’s leading poets writing in Arabic, inspired by the unique collection of Sudanese artefacts at London’s Petrie Museum.
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My Voice: A Decade of Poems from the Poetry Translation Centre
A gloriously diverse, revelatory selection of translations from the first ten years of the Poetry Translation Centre. 111 brilliant poems translated from 27 different languages, ranging from Arabic to Zapotec, with all the original scripts included.
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Hadraawi: The Poet and the Man
Hadraawi: The Poet and the Man is the first time a selection of poems by the greatest living Somali poet, Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame ‘Hadraawi’, has been published in Somali and English.
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Abdellatif Laâbi Chapbook
This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of leading Moroccan poet, Abdellatif Laâbi, translated by Andre Naffis-Sahely.
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Shakila Azizzada Chapbook
This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of Afghan poet Shakila Azizzada, translated by Mimi Khalvati and Zuzanna Olszewska.
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Azita Ghahreman Chapbook
This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of leading Iranian poet Azita Ghahreman, translated by Maura Dooley and Elhum Shakerifar.
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Reza Mohammadi Chapbook
This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of Afghan poet Reza Mohammadi, translated by Nick Laird and Hamid Kabir.
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Taste - Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf Chapbook
This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of UK-based Somali poet Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf, translated by Clare Pollard and Maxamed Xasan ‘Alto’ and Said Jama Hussein.
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Mohan Rana Chapbook
This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of Indian poet Mohan Rana, translated by Bernard O’Donoghue and Lucy Rosenstein.
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Víctor Terán Chapbook
This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of Mexican poet Víctor Terán, who writes in Zapotec, translated by David Shook.
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David Huerta Chapbook
This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of Mexican poet David Huerta, translated by Jamie McKendrick.
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Coral Bracho Chapbook
This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of the leading Mexican poet Coral Bracho translated by Katherine Pierpoint and Tom Boll.
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Gagan Gill Chapbook
This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of leading Indian poet Gagan Gill, translated by Jane Duran and Lucy Rosenstein.
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Farzaneh Khojandi Chapbook
This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of leading Tajik poet Farzaneh Khojandi, translated by Jo Shapcott and Narguess Farzad.
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Toeti Heraty Chapbook
This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of Indonesian poet Toeti Heraty, translated by Carole Satyamurti and Ulrich Kratz.
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Partaw Naderi Chapbook
This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of Afghan poet Partaw Naderi, translated by Sarah Maguire and Yama Yari.
£4
Noshi Gillani Chapbook
This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of leading Pakistani poet Noshi Gillani, translated by Lavinia Greenlaw and Nukhbah Langah.
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Self-Misunderstood! Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac ‘Gaarriye’ Chapbook
Self-Misunderstood! This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of eminent Somali poet Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac ‘Gaarriye’, translated by WN Herbert and Martin Orwin.
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Kajal Ahmad Chapbook
This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of Kurdish poet Kajal Ahmad, translated by Mimi Khalvati and Choman Hardi.
£4
Corsino Fortes Chapbook
This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of Cape Verdean poet Corsino Fortes, translated by Sean O’Brien and Daniel Hahn.
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Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi Chapbook
This dual-language chapbook introduces the poetry of Sudanese poet Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, translated by Sarah Maguire and Sabry Hafez.
£4