Poetry & Translation discussion & readings, Fri 1st Feb, Sheffield
‘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
Son Translations in Alba Londres 06: Contemporary Mexican Poetry
Three of my Son 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 … 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
