The main aims of lyrikline.org are to make poetry known across borders and between languages, to enable poets and poetry lovers to exchange ideas and to create access to contemporary poetry.
The chief basis for achieving this is translation. Without translations, poetry cannot be read outside its own language area.
So we are especially pleased that the German Literature Fund has provided funding for the translation of more than four hundred poems for lyrikline.org, with two-thirds of these being translations into German and one third translations of German poets into other languages.
The first half of the new translations have already been placed on the website; the second half will be following during December.… Lês fierder