“Poetry”, said Robert Frost, “is what gets lost in translation.” This pearl of wisdom is so often quoted, so widely accepted, so profound-sounding, that it is almost certainly untrue. In fact I’d ...

Navajo poet, author, medicine man and former Navajo Nation Vice President Rex Lee Jim died last week at 63. In this 2019 interview, Lee discusses the translation of the Diné language and worldview.

A poem is an artifact constructed from carefully chosen words; changing the language can’t help but – in some part – destroy the original creation. RBTH literary critic Phoebe Taplin explores Russia’s ...

Veteran translator Lee Sung-il (professor emeritus of Yonsei University and a renowned scholar of English literature) has produced another great achievement in translating Korean poetry into the ...

Recently, I read ``Beowulf,” the oldest epic in English literature and the greatest extant poem in Old English. As is widely known, the poem is about the heroic deeds of Beowulf, his victories over ...

Ishrat Afreen is one of the five most influential writers of the feminist movement in Urdu literature and is counted amongst the most renowned poets in Pakistan. She has won numerous awards, and her ...

Classical Japanese poetry on playing cards — in English? It seems like an odd mix. But when you add tales of love and betrayal and brilliant translation, you get a heart-thumping card game like no ...

St John's Co-Cathedral and Inizjamed are getting together for an evening of poetry on Tuesday, 17 March, ahead of World Poetry Day on 21 March. This first-of-its-kind collaboration brings together two ...

Bob Dylan perked our curiosity about the poems of Arthur Rimbaud all those years ago, and Penguin Classics lead the fray when it comes to finding not just Rimbaud, but French poetry in general, in ...