—If the best French lyric poetry of modern days has indisputably a charm of refinement and delicate beauty all its own, the best of the German has an inveterate earnestness and a depth of feeling that ...

Verse translators come in three varieties: Those who get almost nothing right; those (the majority) who get some things right; and those rare birds who get everything, or at least almost everything, ...

Ian McMillan explores German poetry after the fall of the Berlin Wall – with two of Germany’s most celebrated and groundbreaking poets Durs Grünbein and Nora Gomringer. He is also joined by Professor ...

German poet Durs Grünbein and British translator Karen Leeder have won the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize for the collection Psyche Running. The $130,000 prize is the world's largest prize for a single ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. John Rosenwald, a poet and activist, has published a book of translations of ...

Translating poetry without losing its essence is a tough job. It is tougher when the translation is from a European language into a Dravidian tongue, one with an entirely different set of linguistic ...