MPT 1/2017 (Modern Poetry in Translation): Songs of the Shattered ThroatMPTs new issue Songs of the Shattered Throat focuses on poetry in the languages of India, with a selection of new translations of Tulsidas, Monika Kumar, Kutti Revathi, Joy Goswami, Vinod Kumar Shukla and Anitha Thampi, whose poem is published in partnership with Indian Quarterly. The issue also features new work by Ed Doegar, Daljit Nagra and Siddhartha Bose. The translations are accompanied by an essay by prominent Hindi novelist and poet Geet

He lay there till daylight shone on the walls

he finds that justice and the law are not always the same

and the wind billows

the ancient capital of Ireland

Who gets to decide the canon

but the innocent deception cost him his job and the trust of his peers

This is his debut collection

an Aztec goddess

for the Prix de l’Académie Française

In personal terms

where he received the Edith Green Award in teaching in 1997

A Scene in Spring