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Tag Archives: Bill Herbert
Losers’ Club, Jadavpur Convention
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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Tagged Alexandra Buchler, Bill Herbert, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Sampurna Chattarji
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Translation into french : Bill Herbert’s poems in “Terre à ciel”
http://terreaciel.free.fr/Voixdumonde/billherbert.htm (Just edited this to make it an active link. Bill)
May I?
And to the strains of Kevin Ayer’s louche (and now downright creepy) baritone classic, ‘May I?’, Les Loseurs lurch into May with even less news than usual… But wait, Alexandra Buchler and I have just been to Turkey for a … Continue reading
Roselyne into Scots
Here are three poems from a set of seven I translated from the French of ‘Par La Porte du Silence’, a sequence Roselyne wrote on a Korean residency. Again, it was a sense that these particular poems might work well … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Spence, Bill Herbert, French, Hugh MacDiarmid, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Lewis Spence, Marion Angus, Roselyne Sibille, Scots
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Sampurna’s Cities
Almost everyone translated ‘Cities,’ so perhaps, once we have all the versions, we should amalgamate them into this single posting? (Pretty much what we did in performance, anyway.) CITIES Sampurna CHATTARJI So tell me. Is it hot? Does it rain? … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Herbert, Raphael Urweider, Roselyne Sibille, Sampurna Chattarji
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Forgive the Flies in Bambaiya
When the invitation for the LAF workshop arrived i thought Hindi would be the one language i would go with. On day three, at Adishakti, while discussing ‘Dogs, Mobs and Rock Concerts’ with Sampurna i mentioned it might work well … Continue reading
Bangla audio of Bill Herbert’s ‘Hieroglyphic’
Since the script got away, here’s the sound: Hieroglyphic
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Shantiniketan by Bill Herbert: Bangla audio by Sampurna Chattarji My first podcast ever, hence much excitement. While recording it, I realised how much easier it is to read to an audience than to a computer! Also how much the rendering … Continue reading
Translation of Bill Herbert’s ‘Forgive the Flies’ into Tamil
Here’s Bill Herbert’s poem. Forgive the Flies We must forgive the flies because they are so young, their cortices so small, that they don’t understand what it is they crawl on. They greet everything like little deities: sugar and excrement … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Herbert, Meena Kandasamy, poetry, Tamil, translation
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From Sampurna: III
News from Shantiniketan, via my parents. ক্ষমা দি (how do I transliterate that in Roman – Khomadi, the way I would say it in Bengali, or Kshamadi, the way it would be written in Hindi?) has died. I met her … Continue reading