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poetry
Bookshops
The City Lights Staircase After Seventy Years
A long afternoon in the upstairs poetry room at City Lights Booksellers on Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, considered both as a working bookshop and as a literary institution that has carried a particular editorial position since Lawrence Ferlinghetti opened it in 1953.
Translation
Translating Poetry: Three Case Studies from a Difficult Year
Three recent poetry translations, three different solutions to the same impossible problem. Notes on the working choices behind English versions of Akhmatova, Adonis, and a young Vietnamese poet.
Reissues
Carcanet Press at Fifty: A Manchester Poetry List Considered
Carcanet Press, founded in Oxford in 1969 and based in Manchester since 1972, marks fifty-seven years of continuous publishing in 2026. Naïma Bouallam reviews the spring list and the long arc of the press's poetry catalogue.