Archive for February, 2009

Recently one Robin Vaughan-Williams contacted me with a few questions for an article he’s writing for a british poetry magazine. The answers I gave are here below – this is very much thinking aloud, as you’d answer in a spoken-word interview (although conducted through email), and I’ve not cleaned it much up at all.... »

I’ve been translating a few Icelandic poets into English lately – the series will eventually have 25 poets. These five are already up: Sigfús Daðason (1928 – 1996) Böðvar Guðmundsson (1939 – ) Þórunn Erlu-Valdimarsdóttir (1954 -) Anton Helgi Jónsson (1955 – ) Elísabet Jökulsdóttir (1958 – ) You can see the translations here.... »

double-knots in gordion (excerpt) and we thought the morality of men had been changed by the great battles waged by the conquerors of the great battles against the conquerors of the great battles in the century passed since there’d be no despairing had the morality of men changed in the century that is passing... »

If you click on the ‘poetry’ button (how original of me) to the right you can now find two poems translated into Chinese, by Chai Chu. The poems are My Best Word and I am a Letterhead. In other news, I just got a six month writing stipendium from Iceland. I ran into this... »

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the poetry who ran the poet was feeling doubtful about the state of poetry and attended a meeting and then the poetry was in a meeting many poetries together and the poetry was in sentences and questions and the poetry rose from the dead without ever having died or is this some sort of... »

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