This volume provides an account of collaborative poetry translation in practice. The book focuses on the 'poettrio' method as a case study. This process brings together the source-language poet, the target-language poet, and a language advisor serving as a bilingual mediator between the two.Drawing on data from over 100 hours of recorded footage and interviews, Collaborative Poetry Translation offers both qualitative and quantitative analyses of the method in practice, exploring such issues as poem selection, translation strategies, interaction between participants, and the balancing act between the different cultures at play. A final chapter highlights both the practical and research implications for practices of collaborative translation. This innovative work is situated in an interdisciplinary framework of collaborative translation, poetry translation, poetry and creative writing, and it addresses concerns ranging from the ethnography of collaboration to contemporary publishing practice.It will be of interest to students, scholars and specialists in translation studies, comparative literature, literary studies, and creative writing, as well as creative practitioners.

Collaborative Poetry Translation (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies)

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Sampson, Fiona

Herbert, W.N.

Jones, Francis R.

Words, Language & Grammar

Routledge

This volume presents new versions of key chapters from the recent Routledge/Open University textbook, Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings for writers who are specialising in writing poetry. It offers the novice writer engaging and creative activities, making use of insightful, relevant readings from the work of well-known authors to illustrate the techniques presented. Using his experience and expertise as a teacher as well as a poet, Bill Herbert guides aspiring writers through such key writing skills as: <ul>
<li>drafting </li> <li>voice </li> <li>imagery </li> <li>rhyme </li> <li>form </li> <li>theme.</li> </ul>
The volume is further updated to include never-before published dialogues with prominent poets such as Vicki Feaver, Gillian Allnutt, Kathleen Jamie, Linda France, Douglas Dunn, Sean O'Brien and Jo Shapcott. Concise and practical, Writing Poetry offers an inspirational guide to the methods and techniques of this challenging and rewarding genre and is a must-read for aspiring poets.

Writing Poetry

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

This volume presents new versions of key chapters from the recent Routledge/Open University textbook, Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings for writers who are specialising in writing poetry. It offers the novice writer engaging and creative activities, making use of insightful, relevant readings from the work of well-known authors to illustrate the techniques presented. Using his experience and expertise as a teacher as well as a poet, Bill Herbert guides aspiring writers through such key writing skills as:    drafting  voice  imagery  rhyme  form  theme.   The volume is further updated to include never-before published dialogues with prominent poets such as Vicki Feaver, Gillian Allnutt, Kathleen Jamie, Linda France, Douglas Dunn, Sean O'Brien and Jo Shapcott. Concise and practical, Writing Poetry offers an inspirational guide to the methods and techniques of this challenging and rewarding genre and is a must-read for aspiring poets.

W.N. Herbert is a highly versatile poet who writes both in English and Scots. Forked Tongue was his first collection from Bloodaxe. Sean O'Brien has called him 'outstanding... a poet whom nothing - including what he terms "the Anchises of the Scots Style Sheet" - will intimidate'. For Douglas Dunn, his was 'the best writing in Scots - thoughtful, studied, clever - I've seen in years'. Jamie McKendrick admired his 'vibrant' poetry, his 'ear for the sensuous music of Scots' and his 'ability to effect sudden shifts of scale that bring the human and the cosmic face to face'.Herbert wrote: 'To be Scottish is to experience suppressed contrasts; it may be between your lifestyle and that of the af&#64258;uent South, it may be between your speech patterns and the pervasive norm of Standard English. Unlike Ireland, Scotland is not supposed to be "different" or "foreign". It is the country which is not quite a country, possessing a language which is not really a language. To use English or Scots, then, seems to cover up some aspect of our experience, to "lie". The truth about Scotland, perhaps, can only be situated between the dominant and suppressed parts of language, in the region of the forked tongue.' Forked Tongue is a book balanced between these opposites. At its heart are two groups of poems: The Cortina Sonata in English, and The Land&#64257;sh in Scots. Both engage with the problem of re-creating a suppressed culture: Can a myth be ersatz? What is an inauthentic word? How complex is "Scottishness" permitted to be? Buttressed with recent poetry in both tongues, Forked Tongue mixes old and new, both startling English and untypical Scots. Like the gairfish or dolphins which speed through the Scots work, Forked Tongue is both &#64257;sh and mammal. In its geographic sweep and linguistic range, Forked Tongue offers a new de&#64257;nition of what we call "British" poetry.

Forked Tongue (English and Scots Edition)

Poetry

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

A Poetry Book Society Recommended title, The Laurelude bursts all borders, literary and political, creating a zone where the Hollywood musical meets the Jolly Beggars, where lament bumps into love lyric, where the dictionaries go to die. Herbert's book is in three sections. The first section, ""The Laurelude,"" is a blank verse myth about Ulverston's Idiot Boy, Stan Laurel. ""Othermoor"" depicts a cubist version of the North where the Wild Boy himself, the late William Burroughs, rewrites the rules. And ""The Madmen of Elgin"" squashes both Lost Boys and Solitary Reapers into Middle Scots verse forms for a pre-millennial song-and-dance.

The Laurelude

Bloodaxe Books

A judicious and comprehensive selection of 77 American, British, and Irish manifestoes by some of modern poetry's finest practitioners. Opening with Pound, Yeats, and Eliot, the book moves through such key figures as Auden, Hughes, Stevie Smith, Dylan Thomas, Hughes, Heaney, Boland, and McGuckian. American poets are richly represented with pieces by Frost, Williams, O'Hara, Jarrell, Lowell, Bishop, Zukofsky, Plath, Creeley, Baraka, and others. Poetic issues are then brought fully up to date with more than thirty specially commissioned statements from such contemporary poets as Motion, Armitage, Maxwell, Carson, and Dunn. Charting the many different poetic stances and movements of these past one-hundred years, this landmark book champions the continuing dialogue of these voices, past and present, exploring the strongest form that words can take: the poem.

Strong Words: modern poets on modern poetry

Bad Shaman Blues

Omnesia is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly impressive new collection - published in twin editions, the alternative text and the remix - approaches and evades such flawed totality. Along the fracture lines between east and west in the Balkans, Greece, and Jerusalem, across the cultural gaps that mark the north and south of the British Isles, Herbert teases out, through tensions between lyric and satire, English and Scots, formalism and experiment, what it is we hope to mean by home, integrity, or authenticity.

Omnesia: alterative text

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Collaborative Poetry Translation (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies)

Writing Poetry

Writing Poetry

Forked Tongue (English and Scots Edition)

The Laurelude

Strong Words: modern poets on modern poetry

Bad Shaman Blues

Omnesia: alterative text