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The Three Polis: Scots and Intralingual Translation
The panel I took part in on translation at last week’s Newcastle Poetry Festival raised a number of issues of equal fascination to both poets and translators, and, one would hope, readers of both. I found myself as excited by … Continue reading
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(I was struck while reading this review of Murakami’s latest book of short stories by the parallel between his ‘dialled down’ male protagonists, and the ‘hermless’ aspect of Dundee’s male population during the heyday of the jute industry, the ‘kettle-bilers’ … Continue reading
Heroic/Homiletic (you choose) Addendum
(Following on from the previous post, I’d expanded slightly on the enigmatic reference at the end to my own writing, but realised in that context it was digressive. Here, however, it’s part of the estranged brew of published, unpublished, retro- … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholicism, Crete, Dundee, Emmanuel Tzanes, Giorgios Chortatzis, Henry the Eighth, Heraklion, John Knox, Lutheranism, Mandelshtam, Montaigne, Robert Wedderburn, Shostakovich, The Complaynt of Scotlande, The Ottoman Empire, The Rough Wooing, Venice, Vitzentos Kornaros
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Everything is Translation
(Sometime toward the end of last year, I was chatting via email with Fiona Sampson about a translation project when I remarked that I’d been thinking for some time of translation as being at the heart of a broader range … Continue reading
