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The first issue of Modern Poetry in Translation, in 1966, was edited by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort, who believed in the shock of the foreign. Today, with the mass voluntary and enforced movement of people and their languages, is this need for translation still urgent? Do we in Britain risk becoming parochial - even xenophobic - with the march of English towards supremacy among the languages of the world? Can poetry even be translated - or only rewritten? Tonight three writers discuss these questions and read from their work: Elaine Feinstein, poet and leading translator of Russian poetry; George Gom