‘hotair’, North x North West Poetry Tour Sheffield, Bank St Arts
Leire Barrera-Medrano & I talking a load of hotair at each other, at the fab North x North West Poetry Tour Sheffield edition at Bank St Arts two Fridays ago, … Continue reading
An accidental mini-essay: Son Translations in Alba Londres 06: Contemporary Mexican Poetry
Three of my translations of Mexican folk songs in the Son Jarocho and Son Huasteco genres are included in the most recent edition of Alba Londres 06: Contemporary Mexican Poetry. … Continue reading
Dark Night Blues / Noche Oscura
– a vandalisitic / homophonic / back-translated /anagram-ed traducción muy libre of San Juan de la Cruz’s ‘Noche Oscura’, from the book La noche oscura del alma (The Dark Night … Continue reading
Las Olas del Mar traducción / The Waves of the Sea translation
This is a translation of a Son Jarocho tune by the contemporary Mexican Son band Son de Madera. Son Jarocho is a traditional style from the state of Veracruz. It’s … Continue reading
English poems in Spanish (an exercise)
While studying Spanish I had a go at making some literary translations of five poems from English into Spanish (i.e. the wrong way around for a native English speaker!), which … Continue reading
