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Mark Pirie translated into Bosnian and Turkish

Posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Poetry by Mark Pirie, Notes for the Translators, Close Encounters of the Poetic Kind, Mark Pirie translations, University of Sarajevo

In 2024, I was translated into Bosnian and Turkish in the anthology, Close Encounters of the Poetic Kind: A Collection of Poetry by Poets from Australia and New Zealand eds. Vesna Suljić and Mehtap Őzer-Isović, University of Sarajevo, 2024.

It is an anthology of translations selected from the anthology Notes for the Translators that was published in 2012.

The poem of mine translated was 'Progress'.

It is an honour to be included in this University of Sarajevo project.

Mark Pirie appears in Australasian Macao, China anthology

Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2012 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Poetry by Mark Pirie, Notes for the Translators

I will appear in the forthcoming anthology, Notes for the Translators: Poems from 142 New Zealand and Australian Poets.

The book is intended to be offered to Chinese mainstream publishers for translation.

My poem is 'Progress' (also anthologised in Bill Sewell and Lauris Edmond's Essential New Zealand Poems (Godwit/Random House, 2001)) is included.

Notes for the Translators was collected and edited by Christopher (Kit) Kelen of the University of Macao, China. It also features other leading New Zealand and Australian poets like Les A Murray, John Kinsella, David Eggleton, James Norcliffe, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Michael O'Leary and Niel Wright.