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Martha Sprackland
Martha Sprackland is an editor, writer and translator. Her debut collection of poems, Citadel (LUP, 2020), was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Martha has published translations from Spanish of poems by Verónica Viola Fisher, Gladys Mendía, Ana Gorría and others; in 2021 she was shortlisted for the Peirene Stevns Translation Prize (fiction).

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January 2014

Letters from a Seducer

Hilda Hilst

TR. John Keene

poetry

January 2014

At her death in 2004, Brazilian author Hilda Hilst had received a number of her country’s important literary prizes...

poetry

September 2012

Crossing Over

Eleanor Rees

poetry

September 2012

As he sails the coracle of willow and skins his bird eyes mirror the moon behind cloud. Spring tide...

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October 2013

A World of Sharp Edges: A Week Among Poets in the Western Cape

André Naffis-Sahely

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October 2013

In Antal Szerb’s The Incurable, the eccentric millionaire Peter Rarely steps into the dining car of a train steaming...

 

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