Join us as we count down to the ALTA43: In Between awards ceremony with the National Translation Award in Poetry and Prose longlisted titles! We will be featuring the titles in alphabetical order alongside blurbs penned by our judges for the National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose. This year’s judges for prose are Amaia Gabantxo, Emmanuel D. Harris II, and William Maynard Hutchins. This year’s judges for poetry are Ilya Kaminsky, Lisa Katz, and Farid Matuk.

The awards ceremony will air on October 15, 2020 on ALTA’s Crowdcast page: you can register to attend the NTA in Prose announcement here, and the NTA in Poetry announcement here. Find the full list of longlisted titles here.

Today we’re shining the spotlight on NTA in Poetry longlisted title Forty-One Objects:

Forty-One Objects
by Carsten René Nielsen
translated from the Danish by David Keplinger
(The Bitter Oleander Press)

Following in the footsteps of Michaux, Carsten Rene Nielsen reinvents the prose poem as a paragraph in which the line between reality and illusion is no longer obvious: they happen at once, with cinematic clarity. Skillfully translated by David Keplinger, these poems give us a dreamscape where imagination is allowed to roam and possibilities are endless. Carsten Rene Nielsen deserves to be better known outside his native Denmark.