Category Archives: Dubious

Neither poetry nor translation, these entries feed into or are fed by both.

Losers’ Club, Jadavpur Convention

Posted on March 2, 2016 by W N Herbert

Things may have seemed quiet on Dubious Saints recently, but in fact losers have been failing to gather across the globe, under-achieving on a scale that scarcely disturbs the register. Here we see Sampurna and Bill at Jadavpur in February … Continue reading →

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In Praise of the Loser

Posted on March 5, 2013 by sampurnachattarji

I guess all roads lead to the Losers’ Table. Which, once in a while, likes to lose its persitent pursuers, as it did at the recent Literature Across Frontiers translation workshop I was part of in Santiniketan, site of much … Continue reading →

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Hagia Sophia as Trompe l’Histoire

Posted on February 1, 2013 by W N Herbert

(I apologise for slipping a little out of sequence for this post – I still have two others in draft, but I’d like to keep some momentum going while I crouch at the dread throne of the Mar King, contemplating … Continue reading →

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Constantinople and its Double

Posted on January 26, 2013 by W N Herbert

‘Couldn’t we have,’ Richard asked, ‘a map of Istanbul with Byzantium as a layer on top?’ I imagined a booklet of transparent pages, each setting out a different period of the City’s history, with perhaps a detached opaque sheet, so … Continue reading →

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Büyükada v. bustle

Posted on January 22, 2013 by W N Herbert

Greetings from Büyükada, the largest of the Prinkipoi, or Princes’ Islands, in the Sea of Marmara, where we sit nibbling Armenian biscuits in the white timber-fronted family home of our pal Pelin, while she translates the poems of Zöe. We … Continue reading →

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Translation into french : Zoe Skoulding’s poem in Terre à ciel

Posted on January 22, 2013 by roselynesibille

http://terreaciel.free.fr/Voixdumonde/ZoeSkoulding.htm (Just made this link active)

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Flying Economy to Byzantium

Posted on January 20, 2013 by W N Herbert

As we sit, puzzling over how our shoelaces get tied, I’m awaiting the departure of a snow-delayed flight to Heathrow. From thence (after what will now be a mad dash between terminals including retrieving my own luggage and checking in) … Continue reading →

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The Loser’s Club Is A Real Place And We Didn’t Even Get There

Posted on September 29, 2012 by W N Herbert

Delighted to post this image retrieved from Istanbul by Nia Davies, which seems a fitting way of recording the almost complete moribundity into which we, the Collected Losers, Losels and Loseurs of Adishakti, have fallen. Though, to be fair, it … Continue reading →

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Updatapam: where we are losing now

Posted on February 26, 2012 by W N Herbert

As the collapsing table of dubious poetic comestibles continues to rain rum upon the unwary in its second year of uncoordinated activities, I thought I’d just flash fry the News Fish with a series of unlikely and largely mendacious updates … Continue reading →

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…and then i will have to drink for all of us

Posted on December 8, 2011 by arjun
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