ko ko thett’s heart language is Burmese, but he often dunks himself in the discomfort of English. He has published and edited twelve poetry collections and translations in both Burmese and English, and taken part in a number of literary festivals, from Sharjah to Shanghai. His poems are widely published and translated.

Ko Ko Thett (Burmese: ကိုကိုသက်; stylised as ko ko thett; born in 1972 in Rangoon) is a poet, poetry translator and editor based in Norwich, United Kingdom. [1] [2] Ko Ko Thett has published poetry collections, anthologies and translations in both Burmese and English. [1]

2021年3月9日 · Ko Ko Thett is a Burma-born poet, poetry editor, translator, and anthologist of contemporary Burmese poetry. His poems have appeared in journals worldwide (from Griffith Review to Granta), and translated into several languages. After a whirlwind tour of Asia, Europe and North America for two decades, Ko Ko happily resettled in Sagaing in his ...

He is the Burmese editor for the Poetry International website and co-editor and translator of Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets, an anthology of Burmese poetry, recipient of the 2012 English PEN Writers in Translation Programme Award and one of '10 books that chart the country's tumultuous history', according to The Guardian.

2015年2月26日 · Currently he lives in Belgium and is the Burmese editor for the Poetry International website and co-editor and translator of Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets, an anthology of Burmese poetry, recipient of the 2012 English PEN Writers in Translation Programme Award and one of '10 books that chart the country's tumultuous history', ac...

2025年3月18日 · ko ko thett is a poet by choice and a Burmese by chance. In between he is a poetry translator, editor, and anthologist of contemporary Burmese poetry (see WLT, January 2012, 35–41). His first anthology, Bones Will Crow: Fifteen Contemporary Burmese Poets, was published in the US by Northern Illinois University Press.

A collection of the Mandalay poet Khin Zaw Myint's best-loved poems in the original Burmese and in English. The book was an instant hit amongst.

ko ko thett is ‘a poet by choice and Burmese by chance’. He is also an activist and analyst and has lectured, written, and commented extensively on Burma since the late 1990s. Since January 2011 ko ko thett has co-edited Bones Will Crow: an anthology of …

ko ko thett is a Burma-born poet, editor, and translator. His poems have been widely translated, and his translation work has been recognized with an English PEN Translates Award. He was poetry editor for Mekong Review from 2017 to 2022. ko ko thett’s most recent poetry collection is Bamboophobia (2022).

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