Publication of the poetry collection Remembrance of Water & Twenty-Five Trees (Bitter Oleander Press), with paintings by Caroline François-Rubino. Here are two excerpts from the sequence « The Last Cherry Tree »: « rising from farmland an abandoned backyard or is it from a playground the cherry tree lingers long you have been away from the first […]
Read MorePublication of the first English translation of Philippe Jaccottet’s « Truinas », in the « Odd Volumes » series of The Fortnightly Review. The book is a tribute to Jaccottet’s friend, the French poet André du Bouchet, and an evocation of the latter’s death and burial. Here is the opening passage: « It was the 20th of April, on the eve […]
Read MoreThe Centro di ricerca PENS (poesia contemporanea e nuove scritture), at the University of Salento, has published on its website the Italian translation (by Riccardo Frolloni) of my Introduction to my forthcoming translation of Franca Mancinelli’s « Libretto di transito » (« The Little Book of Passage », Bitter Oleander Press, 2018). Here it is.
Read MoreExcellent article by the poet and philosopher Giorgio Linguaglossa about L’oscuro splendore (Mimesis Edizioni, collana « Hebenon ») in the review L’ombre della parole. An excerpt: « La poesia di John Taylor è sensibilissima nel recapitare questa dis-connessione di tutte le cose, la frammentazione delle parole e del senso; ciò che resta è «solo il passaggio di una […]
Read MoreA fine article by the poetess Claudia Zironi about L’oscuro splendore (Mimesis Edizioni, collana Hebenon) in the May issue of the Italian review « Versante ripido« .
Read MoreA fine article by Piero Flecchia about L’oscuro splendore (Mimesis Edizioni, collana « Hebenon ») on the website « Il giornalaccio« —
Read MoreThe spring 2018 issue of the review « The Bitter Oleander » includes a special feature on John Taylor, with a long interview, two sequences of poems (« The Sea at Sète » and « The Word and the Stream »), and excerpts from his translation of Franca Mancinelli’s Libretto di transito as The Little Book of Passage. An excerpt from […]
Read MoreTranslations from Franca Mancinelli’s volume of short prose texts, Libretto di transito (Amos Edizioni, collana « A27 ») in The Bitter Oleander, Plume, and The Fortnightly Review. From the selection in Plume: « With your goodness, you continue to weave this space, to bring details and density to it. Your goodness is a thread that regenerates itself continually, forming […]
Read MoreExcellent article by Giocomo Cerrai on L’oscuro splendore (Mimesis Edizioni, collana « Hebenon ») on the blog Imperfetta Elisse.
Read MoreThe Dark Brightness (Xenos Books, 2017) has been translated into Italian by Marco Morello as L’oscuro splendore (Mimesis Edizioni, collana « Hebenon »). The book includes drawings by four artists: Caroline François-Rubino, Nelly Buret, Sibylle Baltzer, Dimitris Souliotis. An excerpt: . . .when sunlight warms / with its gentle embers of coal / remember this // every […]
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