Ted Hughes and TranslationTed Hughes and Daniel Weissbort, as co founders of the quarterly magazine Modern Poetry in Translation, had a working relationship over many years. Weissbort provides a unique insight into Hughess views on translation and on his interest in making accessible the work of foreign language poets and classical drama. "Poetry is less and less a prisoner of its own language", Hughes wrote, inaugurating the first Poetry International. With many examples,

Because below us

the conversations between Eve

“an entire continent of poems whispering and singing inside Arabic and calling on us to reacquaint ourselves with its topography

and two critical studies of the fiction writings of Saul Bellow

Not Just a Game captures the tension and the laughter

"The title poem of A

Kamil Peteraj

Munir Niazi

heroes and martyrs

Allison Blecker

His writing has been translated into over twenty languages and won several important literary prizes

His sensitive awareness of the natural world