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Happy International Translation Day! by @actionbooks
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@alice.c.miller on @ghayath.almadhoun ‘s poem “If We Lived in a Virtual World” from “I Have Brought You A Severed Hand” for @poetrydaily365 Click the link in our bio to read! by @actionbooks
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revisiting Ashagalomancy by Abraham Smith today! you can find this and three other books by Smith in the action books catalog by @actionbooks
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13 days ago
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Check out poetry in action on the Action Books blog. This month we feature poems from “Sardine” by @insta.miriamreyes translated by @lau.ce , available now at @uglyducklingpresse . “like alphabetic anticipation noun made flesh made wafer i keep you between my tongue and the roof of my mouth // coma nunha anticipación alfabética substantivo feito carne feita oblea gárdote entre a lingua e o ceo de boca” Click the “Action Books Blog” link in our bio to read! by @actionbooks
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Still absorbing this incredible information. It is such an honor to have this work recognized by an organization I care so deeply about. Thank you to the incredible judges @krisvidaalfaro , @tesslewis94 and Wendy Call for the kind words in your citation and for seeing this work so clearly. Thank you also to the staff at @littranslate for all the amazing work they do to support translators—especially @thumbelouise who does so much to make these awards happen. Thank you to the team at @actionbooks for bringing this important ancient voice into our contemporary world in book form. You can order this, and other amazing titles in the Action Books catalogue here: https://actionbooks.org/catalog/ Congratulations to all of those on the shortlist! You can check out the rest of the shortlist and read the judges’ citations here: https://literarytranslators.org/awards/2026-alta-first-translation-prize/ by @actionbooks
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happy pub month (and 10 year anniversary!) to My Country, Tonight by Josué Guébo, translated by Todd Fredson! scroll all the way for an excerpt of an interview with Todd Fredson by Paul Cunningham on the Action Books blog. by @actionbooks
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19 days ago
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We’re still celebrating the big news from @littranslate over the past two weeks! Ghayath Almadhoun’s “I Have Brought a Severed Hand,” translated by Catherine Cobham, was longlisted for the 2026 National Translation Award in Poetry, while M.L. Martin’s “W & E: a refracted translation of Wulf and Eadwacer” was shortlisted for the 2026 ALTA First Translation Prize. Congratulations once more to @ghayath.almadhoun and @m_l__martin ! You can purchase these books, as well as the rest of our incredible catalog, at the link in our bio. by @actionbooks
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M.L. Martin’s “W & E: a refracted translation of Wulf and Eadwacer,” translated from Old English, has been shortlisted for the 2026 ALTA First Translation Prize, administered by the American Literary Translators Association! We’re delighted that our book is one of six exceptional titles honored on this year’s shortlist. The ALTA First Translation Prize recognizes the work of emerging literary translators and their editors. This annual prize is open to all genres, and awards one debut literary translation from any other language into English published in the previous calendar year. Translators based anywhere in the world and translations published anywhere in the world are eligible. The winner will receive a cash prize of $3,000, with $2,000 bestowed to the translator and $1,000 to the editor. The judges for the 2026 ALTA First Translation Prize are Kristen Vida Alfaro, Tess Lewis, and Wendy Call. Congratulations @m_l__martin ! by @actionbooks
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. “I Have Brought You a Severed Hand,” translated from Arabic by Catherine Cobham, has been longlisted for the 2026 National Translation Award in Poetry, administered by the American Literary Translators Association. Longlist: https://literarytranslators.org/awards/2026-national-translation-awards/ لقد أحضرت لكِ يدًا مقطوعة، بترجمة كاثرين كوبهام، في القائمة الطويلة لجائزة الترجمة الوطنية في الشعر لعام ٢٠٢٦، التي تديرها جمعية المترجمين الأدبيين الأمريكيين. القائمة الطويلة https://literarytranslators.org/awards/2026-national-translation-awards/ by @actionbooks
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Ghayath Almadhoun’s “I Have Brought You a Severed Hand,” translated from Arabic by Catherine Cobham, has been longlisted for the 2026 National Translation Award in Poetry, administered by the American Literary Translators Association. We’re thrilled that our book is one of eleven exceptional titles honored on this year’s longlist. The National Translation Award, established in 1998, is awarded annually in poetry and in prose to literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English by masterfully recreating the artistic force of a book of consummate quality. The winning translator will receive a $4,000 cash prize. The judges for the 2026 NTA in Poetry are Karen Kovacik, Karen Leeder, and Robyn Creswell. Congratulations @ghayath.almadhoun ! by @actionbooks
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@ted_dodson @wendyssubway by @actionbooks
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3 months ago
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A new installment of Stockroom Picks is now live! Today's featured guest is @rakishheir, author of CALL THE NECROMANCER (Action Books, 2026) and she has kindly recommended five of her favorite Action Books titles at the link below. Check 'em out! Thanks to #ActionBooks assistant editor @__myaru__ for curating! Here are some highlights. Click on the link in our profile to read the entire article: "[Wild Grass on the Riverbank] is one of my favorite books! I love an epic poem! I wish this were a book taught in high school—like instead of reading Gatsby or The Cremation of Sam McGee, let’s read Hiromi Itō!" @jeffreyangles "If I ever thought about what you do and don’t put in a poem, the answer looks back at me through Heikkinen’s Fatty-XL poems. I LOVE IT when a voice is rude and the poems are saturated! That’s all lyric poetry, ever, I suppose. I say rude but might also say poignant or raw or frank. It has kind of James Tate + Chappell Roan vibes (?)!" @niinausea "Cheer Up, Femme Fatale is so Greek chorus! This is also one of my favorite books to teach because of how the reader’s gaze is weaponized and the intense polyvocal I." "OMG, what’s not to love? I remember Cronk’s [Skin Horse] as one of the first Action titles I read lol but I realize I couldn’t have read them all first. I love it when a book remakes the world around it and language turns talismanic, something sacred for sure but also something to wield—is that not the most occult? This book is a mood! I’m thinking Pretty Little Liars meets an ooze spill from TMNT meets the Syfy channel’s 2009 Alice, all rolled up in gossip & crime & mutant-y/mutiny so juicy. It’s terrifying." "[Valerie Hsiung's efg] makes me think of Anais Duplan’s ekphrastic work (“ekphrasis as an act of devotion”). Maybe the musicality of it? Dislocated voices, spiritual and linguistic echoes, funeral pyres, strange flora and fauna, Hsiung’s book is haunted and haunts. I LOVE an underworld!" @valeriehsiung [Continue reading by visiting the link in our profile] by @actionbooks
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