{"id":1108,"date":"2012-08-17T11:53:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T03:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2012-08-17T11:54:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T03:54:41","slug":"1108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1108","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Chinese Poetry to the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mjpLC6VSLGI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"pageName\"><em>from the Literary Translation Centre at the London Book Fair in April<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Chair<\/strong> David Constantine, Modern Poetry in Translation<br \/>\n<strong>Speakers<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/paper-republic.org\/nickyharman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicky Harman<\/a>, Translator<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W._N._Herbert\" target=\"_blank\">W N Herbert<\/a>, Newcastle University<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Holton_%28translator%29\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Holton<\/a>, Lecturer and Translator<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/yanglian.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yang Lian<\/a> \u6768\u70bc, Poet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Literary Translation Centre at the London Book Fair in April Chair David Constantine, Modern Poetry in Translation Speakers Nicky Harman, Translator W N Herbert, Newcastle University Brian Holton, Lecturer and Translator Yang Lian \u6768\u70bc, Poet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[174,687,399,173,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8srwF-1108","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":879,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=879","url_meta":{"origin":1108,"position":0},"title":"Words Without Borders on the London Book Fair &#038; Contemporary Chinese Poetry","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"April 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week Words Without Borders was reporting on location from the London Book Fair, and their report from Day 3 is full of excitement about Chinese poetry in English and the newly published Jade Ladder: Contemporary Chinese Poetry, which includes my translations of some of Xi Chuan's work. 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