Tagged: “National Translation Month”
Poem of the Week: “Durée d’Octobre / In October” by Claire Malroux
October its brilliance
In its arms
the condemned leaves
the obsession
with dying beautifully
Poem of the Week: Happy National Translation Month
September is National Translation Month, and to celebrate we’re featuring a poem by Máire Mhac an tSaoi, “one of a trinity of poets who revolutionised Irish language poetry in the 1940s and 50s.”
Continue ReadingPoem of the Week: “A l’écoute: Receiver / All Clear” by Ciaran Carson
In the final week of National Translation Month, we’re featuring a unique kind of translation act. In From Elsewhere, Ciaran Carson translates poems by the French poet Jean Follain. However, the volume is different in that Carson pairs these translations with original poems inspired by them: “Translations of the translations,” as he explains in the preface….
Continue ReadingPoem of the Week: “A Postcard Home” by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Wake Forest Press has published books in translation for a few decades, and we’re proud to celebrate National Translation Month during September by featuring some of these poems over the next few weeks. Of course we offer quite a bit of Irish-language poetry in translation, but many of our poets have also translated from French and other…
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