In this very special episode we share the results of our very own translation competition!

Faiz Ahmad Faiz wrote in both Punjabi and Urdu throughout most of the 20th century. His poetry deals with universal themes applicable to many political situations, in his own time and now. He was apt to be censored and often hid the meanings of his poems in religious vocabulary.

Sappho - the legendary gay Greek poet, whose poetry moves people just as much today, as it did in the 6th century.

Russian poet writing in the 20th century. VAST themes, unconventional life, sensational stuff.

Pascoli: a national poet of Italy, very little talked about in the English-speaking world

polish-born parisian poet.

her poetry has musicality, irony, a proto-feminist edge, beauty.

never heard of her? we hadn’t either