Tag 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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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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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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Collection Losers

Posted on April 10, 2011 by W N Herbert

Welcome to April, the loserest of months, in which, so far, we have signally failed to post owt. Surely something has happened in the great echoing void that is our lives – and yet… It is evidently the case that … Continue reading →

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Translation of Bill Herbert’s ‘Forgive the Flies’ into Tamil

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Meena Kandasamy

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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Post-autumn : Poem by Raphael Urweider

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Meena Kandasamy

I am sharing this poem because this is the LEAST expected of me. I have never translated a love poem most of my life, thinking that since the revolution was just around the corner, I had to translate urgent and … Continue reading →

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The Times of India Interview

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Meena Kandasamy

And like Bill Herbert, I too didn’t get to read the Times of India Crest Edition article on the translation workshop. So, here are my answers to Joeanna Rebello’s questions: Q: Translation in literature has always invited debate and scrutiny; … Continue reading →

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Interview avant la Adishakti

Posted on December 30, 2010 by W N Herbert

(Joenna Rebello sent the following questions before I left for Chennai to use in that article for Times of India’s Crest. Don’t know how much if any of it she used – I imagine very little -because I can’t access … Continue reading →

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