Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.17) Parnassus Ed Reiss Yannis Ritsos

Yannis Ritsos

and to improve the material lives of the poor

He is the author of A Mission in Kashmir and runs the website www

Habib Selmi tells the engrossing tale of how he became a writer in a house of no books

He previously edited for IRON Press the highly successful 100 Island Poems (2005)

Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.17) Parnassus Ed Reiss Yannis RitsosThe Spring 2012 issue of MPT will be largely given over to a collaboration with Poetry Parnassus the Southbank Centres celebration of the 2012 London Olympics. My hunch is this will be the biggest poetry event ever a truly global coming together of poets. Simon Armitage Parnassus was a sacred site for the whole Greek world; Delphi, below that mountain, was the navel of the earth, and for the duration of the Olympics a truce was declared so that