Poetry International Web

Poetry International Web (www.poetryinternational.org) is a virtual magazine bringing contemporary poets from 21 different countries under one site, with the common element of parallel translations into the English language. The Poetry Society is the editor of the UK domain; we work with guest editors to produce quarterly issues, in February, May, August and November.

Current Issue

"We are delighted to be able to start the year on four legs, to paraphrase the sphinx, with one of the UK’s brightest young stars as our guest editor. Helen Mort began winning prizes for her poetry before she was a teenager and was a top winner of the Poetry Society’s Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award no less than five times between the ages of 11 and 17..."

Click to read on.

Helen has also written an editorial for us, titled Sparks.

For an archive of the Poetry Society's introduction to each quarterly issue, written by Andrew Bailey and George Ttoouli, see right. Or, to explore PIW for yourself, to "stroll, loiter, skip and meander freely and intuitively from one page to the next, from one country to another - with a healthy disregard of borders and frames", as the site puts it - follow this link:

Poetry International Web - Poetry International UK pages

Poets on UK Domain of PIW

 A. B. Jackson (1965)
Alan Halsey (1949)
Andrew Greig (1951, Scotland)
Andy Brown (1966)
Anthony Joseph (1966, Trinidad)
Brian Moses (1950)
Cecil Helman (1944, South Africa)
Clare Pollard (1978, England)
David Kinloch (1959)
Denise Riley (1948)
Elisabeth Bletsoe (1960, UK)
Frances Presley (1952)
Gwyneth Lewis (1959, Wales)
Jean Bleakney (1956)
Jen Hadfield (1978)
John Burnside (1955)
John Stammers (1954)
John Siddique (1964)
Kathryn Daszkiewicz (1961, England)
Lee Harwood (1939)
Leontia Flynn (1974)
Maria Jastrzębska (1953, Poland)
Martin Mooney (1964)
Medbh McGuckian (1950)
Menna Elfyn (1951)
Michael Laskey (1944, England)
Michelle Green (1976)
Mir Mahfuz Ali (1958, Bangladesh)
Nazand Begikhani (1964, Iraqi Kurdistan)
Paul Henry (1959)
Penelope Shuttle (1947)
Peter Riley (1940, England)
Richard Price (1966)
Shamshad Khan (1964)
Tony Mitton (1951, Tripolitania)
Tracey Herd (1968)
Vahni Capildeo (1973, Trinidad)

Partners

Poetry International Web is a collaboration between organizations and individuals in countries all around the world:

  • Australia: Michael Brennan
  • China: Yu Jian, Simon Patton
  • Colombia: Prometeo (Gloria Chvatal, Fernando Rendón)
  • Croatia: Milos Ðurdevic
  • Germany: literatur WERKstatt berlin (Heiko Strunk, Thomas Wohlfart)
  • Greece: National Book Centre of Greece (Cathrine Velissaris), Piisi (Haris Vlavianós)
  • India: Arundhathi Subramaniam
  • Israel: Mishkenot Sha'ananim (Gabi Hadar, Elisabet Mizrachi, Rami Saari, Lisa Katz)
  • Italy: Department of Linguistics and Comparative Literature, University of Cassino (Roberto Baronti Marchió, Franco Buffoni, Valerio Magrelli)
  • Morocco: House of Poetry Casablanca (Mohammed Bennis, Norddine Zouitni)
  • The Netherlands: Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature (Thomas Möhlmann, Henk Pröpper)
  • Portugal: Instituto Português do livro e das Bibliotecas (Ana Castro, Assunção Mendonça, Rui Pereira, Richard Zenith)
  • Slovenia: Vilenica International Literary Meeting, Slovenian writer's association (Iztok Osojnik)
  • Ukraine: Kateryna Botanova
  • United Kingdom: The Poetry Society
  • Zimbabwe: Weaver Press (Irene Staunton, Chirikure Chirikure)
  • Rotterdam: Poetry International Web Foundation

Editors gather once a year for an editorial meeting during a seminar in the week of the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam.