Category Archives: Translation

Selected Joy

Posted on April 24, 2014 by W N Herbert

(The publication of Sampurna’s translations of Joy Goswami would seem an ideal time to revive this blog for World Losers. I like to think it could cover all the translation, travel and poetic activities of the original Adishakti Crew, augmented … Continue reading →

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Translation into french : Raphael Urweider’s poems in “Terre à ciel”

Posted on April 22, 2012 by roselynesibille

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

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Translation into french : Bill Herbert’s poems in “Terre à ciel”

Posted on February 25, 2012 by roselynesibille

http://terreaciel.free.fr/Voixdumonde/billherbert.htm (Just edited this to make it an active link. Bill)

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Poésie vivante et co-créations de Roselyne SIBILLE, an exhibition of artist books and some translations into ten tongues

Posted on December 22, 2011 by roselynesibille
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Translation into french : three poems of indian poets published in “Terre à ciel” (Sampurna Chattarji, Meena Kandasamy, Arjun Bali)

Posted on July 31, 2011 by roselynesibille

A quick update to make this link live (Bill): http://terreaciel.free.fr/Voixdumonde/indiens.htm

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Zoë Skoulding’s poems in Bangla

Posted on May 16, 2011 by sampurnachattarji

Zoë’s poems only in PDF, as their format gets completely wrecked in the body of a regular post.  Zoe’s poems in Bangla

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Roselyne Sibille’s poems in Bangla

Posted on May 16, 2011 by sampurnachattarji

L’ECHO LIMPIDE D’UNE PLUME L’oiseau attend en suspens dans les souffles L’eau a emporté la face lente de la nuit unie à la lumière aux reflets verts à la voix de la rivière L’écho limpide d’une plume demeure et veille … Continue reading →

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Raphael Urweider’s poems in Bangla

Posted on May 16, 2011 by sampurnachattarji

So the good thing about Akshay’s deadlines for the book was that I finally stirred from my slumber, stupor and scattiness and typed up all my handwritten translations. Here they are, after all the necessary tweaking, fine-tuning and filibustering. Raphael’s, … Continue reading →

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Sampurna’s salt into french

Posted on March 15, 2011 by roselynesibille

SALT Salt of the earth, all subtlety dies with a pinch too much. You taste freedom, the knife-edge on your teeth. Faceless men eat saltless food in a north-western frontier town. You cannot eat the salt of a man you … Continue reading →

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Meena into Scots

Posted on March 7, 2011 by W N Herbert

This poem by Meena was probably the one I wanted to ‘translate’ the most, the one which took longest, and the one which is most problematic. Problematic because the impulse and the root of Meena’s work is so strong that … Continue reading →

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