Tag: translation

What would encourage an acclaimed biographer like seventy-five-year-old Annie Cohen-Solal to repeatedly pardon unpardonable behavior? She does this time and again in her new masterful treatise, Picasso the Foreigner An Artist in France 1900-1973....
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Voyager: Constellations of Memory

Elaine Margolin is startled by this author’s ability to meld past and present, the personal and the political, but above all her concern with comprehending the mindset of perpetrator-turned-confessor

PUBLISHED ON: 01/02/23

CATEGORY: Reviews

Elaine Margolin is startled by this author’s ability to meld past and present, the personal and the political, but above all her concern with comprehe …

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The Gododdin: Lament for the Fallen

Solly Hardwick is impressed by this strikingly personal version of the aftermath of an epic historical battle, which celebrates the poet’s public role of helping readers find solidarity in the collective expression of grief

PUBLISHED ON: 28/09/22

CATEGORY: Reviews

Solly Hardwick is impressed by this strikingly personal version of the aftermath of an epic historical battle, which celebrates the poet’s public role …

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A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast

Elaine Margolin admires the acceptance of uncertainty that is at the heart of this travel-based memoir tracing a journey around Skagen Odde peninsula in the far north of Jutland, Denmark

PUBLISHED ON: 28/09/22

CATEGORY: Reviews

Elaine Margolin admires the acceptance of uncertainty that is at the heart of this travel-based memoir tracing a journey around Skagen Odde peninsula …

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A Mind of Winter: Notes on Exile

As every immigrant knows, Rebecca Ruth Gould writes of the poet Ilya Kaminsky (and other exiles), everything you thought you knew, you have to learn all over again; best cultivate a ‘mind of winter’

PUBLISHED ON: 02/08/22

CATEGORY: Essays, Memoir

As every immigrant knows, Rebecca Ruth Gould writes of the poet Ilya Kaminsky (and other exiles), everything you thought you knew, you have to learn a …

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The Green Indian Problem, The Blue Book of Nebo

Tim Cooke admires two novels that make innovative use of epistolary forms written from the point of view of children, both firmly rooted in their Welsh locations and exploring themes of identity, change and the mother–child relationship

PUBLISHED ON: 28/06/22

CATEGORY: Reviews

Writing in the first person from a child’s perspective is fraught with difficulty. Achieving an authentic language, delivering realistic insights and …

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Let Me Tell You What I Saw

Shara Atashi finds that the cruelty of war is a universal theme in this dual language Arabic-English long poem written by a soldier of the Iraq war, and makes broader comparisons with English and American war poetry and fiction

PUBLISHED ON: 30/03/22

CATEGORY: Essays, Reviews

The effect of this long poem (an abridged dual-language Arabic-English version of the 550-page poem ‘Uruk’s Anthem’) could be described as a shellshoc …

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Hafez and Jones: Poets United for Peace

Shara Atashi on the links between eighteenth-century polyglot William Jones and fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafez

PUBLISHED ON: 30/03/22

CATEGORY: Column

(Above) frieze at University College, Oxford chapel showing Sir William Jones taking notes from Hindi speakers and scholars, (top) roof of Hafez tomb …

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The Legend of Samad Behrangi, the Storyteller

Shara Atashi on Samad Behrangi, one of the most influential children’s authors of Iran, and campaigner against child poverty and for inclusivity

PUBLISHED ON: 01/03/22

CATEGORY: Column

If someday I should face death – as I surely will – it is not what matters. What does matter is what influence my life or death will have on the lives …

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Grand Larcenies: Translations and Imitations of Ten Dutch Poets

The translator’s aim is the creation of a natural artefact in the target language, Scott Emblen-Jarrett writes of this collection inspired by Minhinnick’s The Adulterer's Tongue

PUBLISHED ON: 01/03/22

CATEGORY: Reviews

As a translator, the question of untranslatability is a topic that I often find rearing its head, especially when it comes to poetry, a genre that for …

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