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How to Write Poetry: A Guide to Translation and Transformation

In this series, we explore different ways write poetry, if you’re looking for tips on how to start writing poetry as a beginner, see this blog ‘How to: Poetry Writing Tips for Beginners’. Here’s Carmen Bugan discussing the idea of poetry as translation and transformation.  1. Let’s start with Desert Island Poems. Can you name…

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try to build a pamphlet: Transreading Central Europe

Not just new ways to write, the Poetry School’s Transreading Central Europe course was about experiments in reading. For the 10 weeks of the course, myself and other students puzzled over languages we barely understood to create poems based on the sounds or shapes of Polish, Slovene or Hungarian (homophonic translation)—which in my case had…

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