Filtered for some poetry in modern English

1. My favourite translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Wikipedia) - 1,000 year old Persian poetry - is by Robert Graves from 1967. Graves, it turns out, unknowingly based his translations on hoax sources. Which might not have gone down so badly, except that he used the his publication and the miraculous “discovery” of the sources to very publicly and with disproportionate viciousness put the boot into Edward FitzGerald, the established translator at the time. Graves’ translation was retracted when the hoax came out and you can barely get hold of a copy nowadays. Still great though. Quatrains 24: Allow no shadow of regret to cloud you, No absurd grief to overcast your days. Never renounce love-song, or lawns, or kissed Until your clay lies mixed with elder clay. 2. I am a sucker for old poems in modern English. I don’t think it adds anything to ancient translated text to have to wade through how people wrote two centuries ago. Tales from Ovid, Ted Hughes (1997), is translation of…