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These new adaptations include work based on Propertius, the principal T’ang poets, Rimbaud, Jorge Guillén and the fictitious ‘Gopal Singh’. Also represented here, in a striking new departure, are the Haitian poet Jean-F. Brière, and an African group translated from French.
Some of these versions are quite literal; others try only to ‘recreate the spirit’ of their originals.
ISBN/EAN | 9781852355234 |
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Author | Derek Mahon |
Publisher | Gallery Press |
Publication date | 20 Nov 2008 |
Format | Paperback |
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Derek Mahon’s previous translation work includes plays by Sophocles, Euripides, Racine and Rostand; Words in the Air (Gallery Books, 1998), a selection of poems by Philippe Jaccottet; Birds (Gallery, 2002), a version of Oiseaux by Saint-John Perse, and Adaptations (Gallery, 2006), comprising a wide range of European poets ancient and modern.
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