Granny’s Interpreter Martin Bennett

Granny’s Interpreter Martin BennettGrannys Interpreter includes new and used, published and unpublished poems which wheel around home, belonging and memory on a sliding scale between tenderness and satire and between bereavement and celebration. Many of them have been coloured by the decades in which Ian Watson has lived an emotional tug of war in Germany: between mother and mother in law tongue, between Irish parents and their German grandchildren. They are the chronicle of a

an unerring ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary

Elias Khoury needs no introduction

The Parrots of Villa Gruber Discover Lapis Lazuli completes Julian Stannard's Genoese trilogy

Thomas Kinsella

One of their great pleasures is that they retain a flavour of the speaking voice: enthusiastic

Larissa Miller is a consummate technician

The translation and dispersal of poetry throughout the world sustains an old ideal of internationalism

The autumn issue of Modern Poetry in Translation will be one of transition

both settled outside their mother countries

but only in order to study

by our common interests

Readers will hear how ‘four unacquainted deaf men published near-identical essays deconstructing the assumed importance of sound’