Translating Poetry - a podcast by Free Word

What are the specific challenges of translating poetry? Who is best equipped to do it - the solo translator, co-translators or even collaborative groups - and why? How do you best engage with a
source text, and how do you ensure that the end result ‘lives and breathes’ in the target language? Does it matter whether poetry translations are ‘marketable’, or do they exist primarily to further
academic research? And could translation be a part of the UK’s poetry ‘renaissance’?

Join practising translator and academic Sophie Collins, Literature Across Frontiers director Alexandra Büchler and Poetry Book Society manager Alice Mullen to mull over the big issues of the day
for poetry in translation. Chaired by Erica Jarnes, managing director of the Poetry Translation Centre.

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