Both
Sholeh Wolpé and Keijiro Suga are noted translators of poetry. Suga is a
scholar of poetic translation at Meiji University in Tokyo who regularly
translates from French, English and Spanish into Japanese. Wolpé's translations
from Farsi into English (including influential Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad,
and the new translation of Attar's Persian classic The Conference of Birds)
have opened the rich tradition of Persian poetry to readers in English. In this
discussion, hosted by Australian poet Melinda Smith, we asked them to speak
together about the "art" of translating poetry