From MPT magazine website
"The Singing of the Scythe' is a selection of WW1 poetry... From Paul van Ostaijen’s long Dadaist poem ‘Occupied City’ to the Japanese poet general Nogi to Punjabi folksongs, this issue creates a place for lesser-heard voices of the war and presents a polyphonic response to the conflict."


MPT is the magazine of the international Republic of Letters. We publish the best of world poetry, from Siberia to Chile, from Wales to Japan.
MPT seeks to widen and vary the whole idea and practice of translation. There are essays, discussions, and any number of examples.
Readers and contributors move among and between the languages.
MPT crosses frontiers of space and time. It publishes lively and up-to-the-minute versions of the poetry of any language in any age.
MPT publishes long-established poets and translators alongside others who are just beginning to make their way

Selected poems
anon
Punjabi Folksongs
Translated by Amarjit Chandan
Eugene Dubnov
Where the Earth’s Outstretched
Translated by Alison Brackenbury
Stefan Hertmans
The Flight
Translated by Donald Gardner
Yi Lu
Yell
Translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Yi Lu
Goats on a Desert Island
Translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Osip Mandelstam
Versions of a Mandelstam quatrain: The Voronezh Variations
Translated by George Szirtes
Nogi Maresuke
Souls Mountain
Translated by Chris Beckett, Iso Miura
Paul van Ostaijen
Poems from ‘Occupied City’
Translated by David Colmer
Jacques Réda
A Found Photo
Translated by Jennie Feldman
Jacques Réda
The Price of Time on the Île Saint-Germain
Translated by Jennie Feldman
Marina Tsvetaeva
War, war! Incense at the icon cases…
Translated by Christopher Whyte
Carl Zuckmayer
1917
Translated by David Colmer