Miklos Radnoti

These are my modern English translations of poems by the first poet we know by name, the ancient Sumerian poet Enheduanna, other wonderful ancient female poets like Sappho and Tzu Yeh, the great Jewish Holocaust poet Miklos Radnoti, the ancient Scottish poet William Dunbar, the eclectic German poet Georg Trakl, the avant garde English poet Pauline Mary Tarn, who wrote poems in French as Renee Vivien, and other poets from around the globe so famous that we know them by a single name, such as Basho, Chaucer, Corinna,

These are my English translations of Holocaust poems by Miklos Radnoti, with a bio following the poems. 

Postcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti, written August 30, 1944
translation by Michael R. Burch