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Colleagues are warmly invited to the Poetry in Translation Launch event for
Centres of Cataclysm and Currently & Emotion with the editors Sasha Dugdale, David Constantine and Sophie Collins. Poets will read from both anthologies, followed by a panel discussion with Professor Charles Forsdick about poetry translation in
Britain. In collaboration with the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, and the AHRC.
Wed 22 Feb at 5.30pm
School of the Arts Library, 19 Abercromby Square Liverpool L69 7ZG
Tickets are free but places must be booked:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/miriam-allott-series-2016-2017-poetry-in-translation-launch-event-for-centres-of-cataclysm-and-tickets-27813867025
Centres of Cataclysm celebrates the fifty-year history of
Modern Poetry in Translation, one of the world’s most innovative and exciting poetry magazines.
Founded in 1965 by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort, MPT has constantly introduced courageous and revolutionary poets of the 20th and 21st century to English-speaking readers. Ted Hughes thought of MPT as an ‘airport for incoming translations’
- from the whole world, across frontiers of space and time. These are poems we cannot do without. The anthology is not arranged chronologically but, from a variety of perspectives, it addresses half a century of war, oppression, revolution, hope and survival.
In so doing, it truthfully says and vigorously defends the human. In among the poems are illuminating letters, essays and notes on the poets, on the world in which they lived and on the enterprise of translating them.
Currently & Emotion: Translations is an innovative and extensive anthology of contemporary poetry translations edited by Sophie Collins, whose debut collection is forthcoming from Penguin in 2017.
The anthology presents a varied and carefully curated selection of works which foreground the translator, and, by showcasing a broad range of approaches, seeks to challenge dominant perceptions of translation as an uncomplicated literary
service that simply facilitates access to foreign and/or historical texts. The anthology is comprised of 29 extended excerpts from book- or pamphlet-length translation projects (rather than one-off translations of individual poems), either unpublished or published
since 2010. The selection leans towards translations by and from female translators and authors, and towards work that shows awareness of, and that negotiates in interesting ways, the complex power dynamics inherent to every act of translation. In addition
to the poems, the anthology includes extended introductory material by Sophie Collins, a preface by Erín Moure and an afterword by Zoë Skoulding. The excerpts are accompanied by short contextualising notes based on discussions with the translators and (where
possible) the authors of the source texts.
Places are limited, so please register your place early to avoid disappointment!
Dr Lyn Marven
Senior Lecturer in German
Undergraduate Curriculum Lead for MLC (Modern Languages & Cultures)
Head of German
German section editor of Modern Languages Open (MLO)
Department of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLC)
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