This new and fully bilingual edition of the Poems of Mascha Kaléko, out in time for the 110th anniversary of her birth, is a good introduction in English to one of my favourite German poets, who deserves to be more…
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Mascha Kaléko: a new bilingual edition
Tagged with: Andreas Nolte, books, Fomite Press, Gabriele Münter, German, Mascha Kaléko, Poetry, The Poems of Mascha Kaléko, Translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Finland 100: Edith Södergran
It is spring. The earth is bare, the snow is melting. The nights are cold, but the sun is getting stronger, the days are getting longer, a lot longer. Takatalvi (“back-winter” – the reverse of an Indian summer) might strike at…
Tagged with: Aale Tynni, David Barrett, Edith Södergran, Finland, Finland 100, Pentti Saaritsa, Poetry, Swedish, Uuno Kaila
Posted in books, Finland 100, poetry, translation
Posted in books, Finland 100, poetry, translation
Not written words
Words that make satisfying shapes in your mouth and on the page, rolling around your tongue and exploding like popping candy. Penned by a woman whose name looks like a girl playing hopscotch, whose work has been described as ‘urchin…
Tagged with: Chinese, Hong Kong, Jennifer Feely, Not Written Words, Poetry, transation, Xi Xi, Zephyr Press
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Citizens of Beauty
If you don’t fit neatly into a particular category, if you’re difficult for people to place, they won’t place you, their eyes might slide right over you and move on to someone else. And if you try to break down those…
Tagged with: Algeria, Citizens of Beauty, French, Jack Hirschman, Jean Sénac, Michigan State University Press, Poetry, Translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Rumi’s greatest love
Today’s a day to celebrate all kinds of love, and here are some poems for it that you’ve probably never seen. Rumi’s Persian work is very well known and loved in the English-speaking world, but he also wrote in Arabic.…
Tagged with: Anthony A. Lee, Arabic, Love is my Savior, Michigan State University Press, Nesreen Akharkhavari, Persian, Poetry, Rumi, Translation, Valentine's Day
Posted in books, faith, poetry, translation
Posted in books, faith, poetry, translation
Written in the dark
After the Siege of Leningrad, it has taken seven decades for these poems to be published. The blockade was horrific: at least 600,000 civilians had died by the time it was over on 27 January 1944. It’s no surprise the reality of…
Tagged with: Anand Dibble, Ben Felker-Quinn, Charles Swank, Elena Marttila, Eugene Ostashevsky, Gennady Gor, Matvei Yankelevich, Pavel Zaltsman, Polina Barskova, Russian, Sergei Rudakov, Siege of Leningrad, Translation, Ugly Duckling Presse, Written in the Dark
Posted in books, history, poetry, translation
Posted in books, history, poetry, translation
Islands of Protest
This book will make you angry, and sad, and want to act, at least it did me. Coming from a small country where people were made to wear a sign around their neck if they spoke their native language…
Tagged with: Davinder L. Bhowmik, Islands of Protest, Japanese, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, Ryukyuan languages, Steve Rabson, Translation
Posted in books, poetry, short stories, theatre, translation
Posted in books, poetry, short stories, theatre, translation
A seed, knocking
A Mordovian winter seems endless, especially if you are going to see seven of them in succession, and not by choice. But under the snow, a seed is knocking: This strong collection of poems from Latvian writer Knuts Skujenieks, could not be…
Tagged with: Bitite Vinklers, Knuts Skujenieks, Latvian, Poetry, Seed in Snow, Translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
A new year’s resolution: translate more poetry
After three days of the new year, how are your resolutions shaping up? There’s still time to make a new one, and join the Poetry Translation Centre in translating some amazing poetry from around the world. You can join the PTC…
Tagged with: Bernard O'Donoghue, Choman Hardi, Dari, Dilawar KAradahi, Hindi, Kurdish, Lucy Rosenstein, Mohan Rana, New Year's resolutions, Partaw Naderi, Poetry, Poetry Translation Centre, Sara Maguire, Yama Yari
Posted in international, poetry, translation
Posted in international, poetry, translation
The White Islands
This is a book for anyone whose parents or grandparents came from somewhere else, especially if they did not move by choice. White Islands/Las Islas Blancas is a beautiful bilingual edition of Agosín’s poetry and Nanfito’s translations, brimming with memories handed down…
Tagged with: books, Jacqueline Nanfito, Ladino, Marjorie Agosín, Poetry, Sephardic Jews, Spanish, The White Islands, Translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
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