Once he’d written them, he didn’t look back. He moved on to plays and novels, for which he’s much better known. He didn’t write any more poems for decades. Once he’d written them, he kept looking back. He returned and…
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Thomas Bernhard’s poems
Tagged with: books, Collected Poems, German, James Reidel, Poetry, Seagull Books, Thomas Bernhard, Translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
VE Day #73: All that still matters at all
You might have heard of writing for the desk drawer, but what about writing for your jacket pocket when you expect to die, be buried in a mass grave if at all, and the odds of anyone finding what you’ve…
Tagged with: All that Still Matters at all, Hungarian, John M. Ridland, Miklós Radnóti, Peter V. Czipott, Poetry, Translation
Posted in books, history, poetry, translation
Posted in books, history, poetry, translation
Stormwarning
The storm is coming. The meteorologist knew it was coming. The title poem opens with a quote from weather-woman Birta Líf Kristinsdóttir, saying that tomorrow will be worse, which is not to say that today’s weather isn’t bad. Will winter…
Tagged with: books, Icelandic, K. B. Thors, Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir, Phoneme Media, Poetry, Translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
An odd choice for Valentine’s Day, perhaps? Bear with me, you’ll see. In Blake’s image, a woman powered with sunlight faces down a dragon. This ultimate battle between good and evil from the Book of Revelation is the cover image…
Tagged with: Ana Luisa Amaral, books, Margaret Jull Costa, Poetry, Portuguese, The Art of Being a Tiger, Translation
Posted in books, gender, poetry, translation, Valentine's Day
Posted in books, gender, poetry, translation, Valentine's Day
Odyssey
Once upon a time, not all that long ago, there was an eight-year-old girl in pigtails who was lucky enough to go to the sort of primary school where eight-year-old girls get to play the Goddess Athena in the school…
Tagged with: books, Emily Wilson, Greece, Greek, Homer, Odyssey, Poetry, Translation
Posted in books, Folklore, history, poetry, translation
Posted in books, Folklore, history, poetry, translation
Twelve Days: Six Catalan Poets
In the middle of the twelve days of Christmas, the year is turning. It’s a time to remember the good and bad in the year that’s fading, and perhaps to hope for something better in the year to come. One…
Tagged with: Anna Crowe, Carles Torner, Catalan, Catalonia, Elies Barberà, Gemma Gorga, Jordi Julià, Josep Lluís Aguiló, Manuel Forcano, New Year, Pere Ballart, Poetry, Six Catalan Poets, Translation
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Posted in books, Christmas, language, poetry, translation
Eleni Vakalo
“Listening to the foreign language I was deeply speaking our own, and came to understand how difficult it is to name things truly…” says the Greek poet, Eleni Vakalo (1921-2001). Her translator, Karen Emmerich, describes discovering manuscripts of her poems…
Tagged with: books, Eleni Vakalo, Greek, Karen Emmerich, Poetry, Translation, Ugly Duckling Presse
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Posted in books, poetry, translation
1917
It’s a hundred years since the October Revolution. What was it really like at the time, when nobody knew how it would end? Was all the violence worth it? Was a new dawn really breaking? This hugely varied collection of…
Tagged with: 1917, books, Boris Dralyuk, Josh Briggs, Martha Kelly, Poetry, Pushkin Press, Robert Chandler, Russian, Russian Revolution, Translation
Posted in books, history, translation
Posted in books, history, translation
The Coast Road
The first ever Warwick Prize for Women in Translation short list presents tough competition (not least with Memoirs of A Polar Bear and Second Hand Time) but The Coast Road (The Gallery Press, 2016) is extraordinary. A host of translators offer…
Tagged with: Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Alan Gillis, Billy Ramsell, David Wheatley, Ireland, Irish Gaelic, John McAuliffe, Justin Quinn, Medbh McGuckian, Michael Coady, Michelle O’Sullivan, Paul Muldoon, Peter Fallon, Peter Sirr, Poetry, The Coast Road, The Gallery Press, Tom French, Translation, Vona Groarke, Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
Things that Happen
Poems from the heart of the city, written in a language that doesn’t get translated nearly often enough, Bengali. Bhaskar Chakrabarti writes about the ordinary life he sees from his window in Kolkata, and Arunava Sinha’s is the first major…
Tagged with: Arunava Sinha, Bengali, Bhaskar Chakrabarti, books, India, Kolkata, Poetry, Seagull Books, Translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
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