Award winning Georgian writer Tamta Melashvili brings us back to her childhood safty through Eka Kevanishvili’s poetry.
Tamta’s work (https://www.lindeneditions.com/susanna-bissoli-1-1-1-1-1-1)
Eka’s work (https://www.rferl.org/author/eka-kevanishvili/y-rmq)
Eka’s poetry in EN (https://www.versopolis.com/poet/278/eka-kevanishvili)
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9 Feb 2026
#2 Sofia (untranslated short)
Five years ago Argentinian poet Sofia wrote a poem for her niece about holding onto what is most precious: remaining vulnerable and curious like a child.
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12 Jan 2026
Is it possible to translate poetry? Interview with Gökçenur Ç.
Gökçenur Ç. is a Turkish poet, translator, editor and cultural activist. He organizes cultural events, poetry translation workshops and international poetry festivals. In this interview he talks about his view on poetry translation, and reflects on his essay he wrote on Versopolis about the topic. Read the article here (https://www.versopolis.com/articles/author-of-the-week/1607/the-possibility-of-every-poem-being-translatable-without-losing-its-value-is-greater-than-the-possibility-of-any-poem-losing-its-value-in-translation).
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15 Dec 2025
#1 Chathuni
Chatuni calls herself a feminist with a reading habit. She navigates between Singapore and Sri Lanka. Sinhala is her first core language, but she reads almost exclusively in English, even speaks English at home, with her family. Occasionally, when she meets another Sri Lankan abroad, she’ll switch to Sinhala. Writing it by hand feels unfamiliar. She hasn’t forgotten the letters, but the muscle memory isn’t quite there.
She’s always chasing new authors, different voices, going down rabbit holes, searching. Now I ask her to do something simple, and not simple at all: to find a poem in Sinhala that’s never been translated. One she carries in memory.
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10 Dec 2025
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