Greetings to the People of Europe! Alemu Tebeje and Chris Beckett
Modern Poetry in Translation
English - August 07, 2016 16:47 - 2 minutes - 6.75 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture Places & Travel poetry translation literature world modern culture international literary Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
ALEMU TEBEJE is an Ethiopian journalist, poet and web-campaigner based in London. His poems have been published in the anthologies Forever Spoken and No Serenity Here, featuring 26 poets from 12 African countries. His website is: www.debteraw.com
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CHRIS BECKETT grew up in Ethiopia and his translations of contemporary Amharic poets such as Bewketu Seyoum and Zewdu Milikit have appeared in MPT, Poetry Review and Wasafiri. His collection of praise shouts and laments, Ethiopia Boy, was published by Carcanet/Oxford Poets in spring 2013. More information on www.chrisbeckettpoems.com