Modern Poetry In Translation

Claudiu Komartin, born in 1983, is a Romanian poet and translator. His fourth book, Cobalt, came out in May 2013. Between 2011–2012 he was resident writer at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London and his extended ‘Poem For Pop’ was published in the UK in Long Poem Magazine in 2011. He edits the review Poesis International. Stephen Watts is a poet, editor and translator. His most recent work is Mountain Language/Lingua di montagna (Hearing Eye 2009). He edited the Punjabi poet Amarjit Chandan’s Sonata For Four Hands and co-translated Meta Kušar’s Ljubljana (both from Arc Publications 2010). He is also co-translating, with Cristina Viti, a short novel by Reza Baraheni.