Over at the Poets on Fire forum, there's currently an unusual thread about the difficulties that are involved in translating Spanish poetry for a U.K. readership.
My own view of translating poetry is perhaps best summed up by my last post on the subject.
And so… 17 years after The Maker of Glass Eyes, we have Poems In The Key Of
Aardvark. It’s been strange, trawling through poems, some of which I’d
forgotte...