Poetry translation

Francis R. Jones
Newcastle University
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The nature of poetic text makes it challenging to translate, which has stimulated much debate about how these challenges should be tackled. This entry describes these issues, plus the skills, working processes and professional conditions involved in translating poetry.

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Further reading

Allén, Sture
1999 Translation of Poetry and Poetic Prose: Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 110. Singapore: World Scientific.  TSB. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Honig, Edward
1985 The Poet’s Other Voice. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.Google Scholar
Koster, Cees
2000 From World to World: an Armamentarium for the Study of Poetic Discourse in Translation. Amsterdam: Rodopi.  TSBGoogle Scholar
Matterson, Stephen & Jones, Darryl
2000 Studying Poetry. London: Arnold.Google Scholar
Osers, Ewald
1998 “Translation norms: do they exist?” In Translators’ Strategies and Creativity, Ann Beylard-Ozeroff, Jana Králová & Barbara Moser-Mercer (eds), 53–62. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar