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In the translation of literary works and the writing of poetry we find a shared fascination and entanglement with language for its own sake. Both poetry and translation push words beyond their limits. As practices they break form and traverse boundaries to communicate something new. Poems from Colombia, Greece and Sweden appear here in their first English translations. Voices from Argentina, France, Germany, Norway, and Quebec are represented in new translations of prose-fiction and hybrid-genre pieces. The Japanese Tanka form inspires concise, born-in-English work. Anglo-Saxon kinship terms erupt within otherwise monolingual poetry. Invocations of toads, beaches and guns impart the political and personal urgency that has encapsulated the poetics of this graduate class. This collection showcases the bold, heartfelt work of the 2024 graduates from both the MA in Literary Translation and MA in Poetry at UEA.

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Kari Dickson is a literary translator from Norwegian. Her work includes crime fiction, literary fiction, children’s books, theatre and nonfiction. She is also an occasional tutor in Norwegian language, literature and translation at the University of Edinburgh, and has worked with BCLT and the National Centre for Writing. Cecilia Rossi is Associate Professor in Literature and Translation at the University of East Anglia, where she convenes the MA in Literary Translation and works for BCLT as Postgraduate and Professional Liaison. Her latest translation, The Last Innocence and The Lost Adventures (Alejandra Pizarnik) was published by Ugly Duckling Presse and shortlisted for the National Translation Awards for Poetry (ALTA) in 2020. Joelle Taylor is the author of 4 collections of poetry. Her most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors. C+NTO is currently being adapted for theatre with a view to touring. She is a co- curator and host of Out-Spoken Live at the Southbank Centre, and tours her work nationally and internationally in a diverse range of venues, from Australia to Brazil. She is also a Poetry Fellow of University of East Anglia and the curator of the Koestler Awards 2023. Holly Corfield Carr is a poet, writer and researcher. She is a Lecturer in Poetry at the University of East Anglia where she teaches on the MA Creative Writing (Poetry) and a Bye Fellow in English at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. Her research explores site-specific writing practices, with a particular interest in caves and, more recently, shells. Her writing has received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2012 and won the Frieze Writer’s Prize in 2015. Recent poems have been published in Poetry, The Poetry Review, the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry London, Oxford Poetry and The Happy Hypocrite.

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