DUAL Poetry Podcast

Translated by Jamie McKendrick This week's poem is 'Heaven's Kitchen' by David Huerta from Mexico. The poem is read firs... Read more

Beloved by Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf is a passionate love poem! It is a jiifto, one of the many Metric forms of Somali poet... Read more

'July' is by Diana Anphimiadi, a Georgian poet who is also a linguist, and whose often complex poetry foregrounds langua... Read more

at three o’clock in the morning you put your arms around a tree because there’s no-one to put their arms around you Slee... Read more

This week's poem is by Bejan Matur. The poem is read first in English translation by Jen Hadfield and then in Turkish by... Read more

This week’s poem is by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi from Sudan. The poem is read first in English translation by Sarah Maguire and... Read more

This week's poem is by David Huerta from Mexico. The poem is read first in English translation by Jamie McKendrick and t... Read more

Salome Benidze is a poet, writer, blogger and translator. Her poetry has received many prestigious awards and has been t... Read more

This week’s poem is 'With a Red Flower' by Azita Ghahreman from Iran. The poem is read first in English translation by t... Read more

This week’s poem is by Corsino Fortes from Cape Verde. The poem is read first in English translation by Sean O'Brien and... Read more

In this poem, Sudanese poet Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi captured the deep-seated antipathy of the late night bartender ‘Nursing a... Read more

This week's poem podcast contains three short poems by Kurdish-Turkish Poet Bejen Matur, translated by Canan Marasligil ... Read more

This is one of two prayer-poems from Diana's PTC Chapbook 'Begining to speak' Diana Anphimiadi quickly distinguished her... Read more

Today's poem is 'Aural ' by David Huerta from Mexico.  The poem is read first in English translation by Jamie McKendrick... Read more

This week's poem is 'Empty Town' by the Chinese poet Yu Yoyo. In her afterword to Yu Yoyo's collection My Tenantless Bod... Read more

Today’s poem is Fertile Truce the title poem from Legna Rodríguez Iglesias’ 2012 collection. It was translated for the P... Read more

here is a constant struggle in Turkey between being oneself and having to fit into a mould – a mould shaped by nationali... Read more

Thanks to Kurdish poet and translator, Choman Hardi, we translated this wonderful poem by Dilawar Karadaghi over the cou... Read more

This week's poem is 'When Winter Comes' by Azita Ghahreman from Iran. The poem is read first in English translation by M... Read more

This week's poem ‘My girlfriend leaves for Cancún today ’ is from by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias' collection Dame Spray, wh... Read more