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Franca Mancinelli et « The Little Book of Passage » / « The Enchanting Verses Literary Review »

The Little Book of Passage (traduit par John Taylor, Bitter Oleander Press) de Franca Mancinelli a été présenté par Pramila Venkateswaran dans la revue The Enchanting Verses Literary Review: Franca Mancinelli achieves the best poetry in her spare sentences set into short blocks of prose in this small book. These are poems of passage, as the […]

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Franca Mancinelli’s « The Little Book of Passage » reviewed in « The Enchanting Verses Literary Review »

Pramila Vendateswaran reviews Franca Mancinelli’s The Little Book of Passage (translated by John Taylor, Bitter Oleander Press) in  Enchanting Verses Literary Review: Franca Mancinelli achieves the best poetry in her spare sentences set into short blocks of prose in this small book. These are poems of passage, as the title suggests, road signs or signals we […]

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Seven poems by José-Flore Tappy in translation / World Writing in Translation

John Taylor has translated seven poems by José-Flore Tappy for Issue 31 (« Hauntings ») of the journal World Writing in Translation (Two Lines, Fall 2019). The poems have been selected from her book Trás-os-Montes (Éditions La Dogana). Here is one of the poems in French and in English: Je voudrais, moi, poser mes yeux sur l’ouvrage […]

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Sept poèmes de José-Flore Tappy traduits dans World Writing in Translation

John Taylor a traduit sept poèmes de José-Flore Tappy pour le numéro 31 (« Hauntings ») de la revue World Writing in Translation (Two Lines). Ces poèmes sont extraits de son livre Trás-os-Montes (Éditions La Dogana). Voici l’un des poèmes en français et en traduction: Je voudrais, moi, poser mes yeux sur l’ouvrage qui l’occupe et retrouver même […]

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Préface à l’anthologie « How the Trojan War Ended I Don’t Remember »

John Taylor a écrit la préface à l’anthologie How the Trojan War Ended I Don’t Remember (Chelsea Editions), de Giorgio Linguaglossa. Voici le texte: « The title sets the tone for this lively anthology. Several of the fourteen poets included in How the Trojan War Ended I don’t Remember conjure up the Greco-Roman heritage in various ways, […]

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John Taylor’s preface to Giorgio Linguaglossa’s anthology « How the Trojan War Ended I Don’t Remember »

John Taylor has written the preface to Giorgio Linguaglossa’s anthlogy How the Trojan War Ended I Don’t Remember: An Anthology of Italian Poets in the Twenty-First Century (Chelsea Editions). Here is the text: « The title sets the tone for this lively anthology. Several of the fourteen poets included in How the Trojan War Ended I don’t Remember […]

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Une série poétique du livre « The Dark Brightness » traduite en serbe par Milica Milenković

La série poétique « But It Was Not Yet Night » (The Dark Brightness, Xenos Books, en collaboration avec Chelsea Editions) a été traduite en serbe par la poétesse Milica Milenković et publiée dans la revue Povelja. En français, cette série se trouve dans le livre Le dernier cerisier (Éditions Voix d’encre).  

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A poetic sequence from John Taylor’s « The Dark Brightness » translated into Serbian by Milica Milenković

The Serbian poet Milica Milenković has translated the sequence « But It Was Not Yet Night », from The Dark Brightness (Xenos Books, in collaboration with Chelsea Editions) into Serbian. The translation has been published in the magazine Poljeva (1 / 2019).

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Article sur The Little Book of Passage, de Franca Mancinelli, dans le Times Literary Supplement

Mark Glanville a écrit un article sur The Little Book of Passage (Bitter Oleander Press), de Franca Mancinelli, dans le Times Literary Supplement. Un extrait: « Though [The Little Book of Passage] is brief and its language plain, her subject, treated with respect, modesty and delicacy, is the great undertaking of all major poets—to discover, as […]

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Franca Mancinelli’s « The Little Book of Passage » reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement by Mark Glanville

Mark Glanville has reviewed Franca Mancinelli’s The Little Book of Passage (The Bitter Oleander Press) in the Times Literary Supplement. An excerpt: « Though [The Little Book of Passage] is brief and its language plain, her subject, treated with respect, modesty and delicacy, is the great undertaking of all major poets—to discover, as her excellent translator John […]

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