Paul Batchelor

'So That Minotaur' is a modernist poem about conflict by Babak Khoshjan.

Join the poem's translator Paul Batchelor and Modern Poetry in Translation editor Sasha Dugdale for a close reading of the poem. Hear how Paul worked on the poem with his co-translator Alireza Taheri Araghi and learn about the choices a translator makes in order to bring a poem across into English.

'O Beloved
when you dried up
our daughter lost her milkteeth to a cow's udder
so now she's foster-sister to her father
so now she's woman
so now she's cow
so now she's the bastard daughter of Mancowoman'

(from 'So That Minotaur' by Babak Khoshjan, translated by Alireza Taheri Araghi and Paul Batchelor, Modern Poetry in Translation: Scorched Glass)

For ages 16+. Held in the Sunley Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall