« Cinq aperceptions », extraites du livre The Presence of Things Past, ont paru en italien (traduction Marco Morello) sur le site L’ombre delle parole. Ces cinq textes sont préfacés par un introduction écrite par Taylor lui-même. Voici la version originale anglaise de ce texte, non reproduite sur le site italien: My “Apperceptions” In the early 1980s, […]
Read MoreA selection of « five apperceptions » from John Taylor’s book The Presence of Things Past have appeared, in Marco Morello’s Italian translation, on the website L’ombre della parole. Here is the original English version of John Taylor’s introduction to these five texts: My “Apperceptions” In the early 1980s, after the death of my mother (in […]
Read MoreJohn Taylor a écrit cet hommage à Philippe Jaccottet pour le site Poezibao: Aux fleurs des champs « Approchées, même pas dans la réalité de telle journée de mars, rien que dans la rêverie, [les pivoines] vous précèdent, elles poussent des portes de feuilles, de presque invisibles barrières. . » (« Les pivoines », Après […]
Read MoreJohn Taylor publishes this tribute to Philippe Jaccottet in The Fortnightly Review: “Once approached—not even in the reality of a March day, but in a mere daydream—[the peonies] go before you, pushing open leafy doors, almost invisible barriers. . .” (“The Peonies,” After Many Years, 1994) FOR DECADES NOW I have loved searching for, and admiring, wildflowers in […]
Read MoreDes extraits de la longue série poétique « Fault Lines », de John Taylor, paraissent dans le numéro de mars 2021 de la revue américaine Cholla Needles. Voici le poème d’ouverture: sometimes just a line a crack beneath the vineyard the backyard the playground on the map behind your eyes
Read MoreExcerpts from John Taylor’s long poetic sequence « Fault Lines » have been published in Cholla Needles (March 2021). The opening poem: sometimes just a line a crack beneath the vineyard the backyard the playground on the map behind your eyes
Read MoreNeuf poèmes de la poétesse grecque Veroniki Dalakoura, traduits par John Taylor, paraissent dans The Fortnightly Review. Voici l’un des poèmes: For That Love WHAT a pity for that love it tiptoed into the sea as evil pimples were growing from the healing armada and snatching away the sign of a laughable good. Stand outside the […]
Read MoreNine poems by Veroniki Dalakoura, translated by John Taylor, published in The Fortnightly Review. One of the poems: For That Love WHAT a pity for that love it tiptoed into the sea as evil pimples were growing from the healing armada and snatching away the sign of a laughable good. Stand outside the door: my heart […]
Read MoreSix poems by the Greek poet Veroniki Dalakoura published in the magazine Eurolitkrant: Six Poems from 26 Poems Translated from the Greek by John Taylor . . . And the Catastrophe Don’t leave me alone, please don’t leave me In beloved hell This earth lies under low clouds, the notes […]
Read MoreSix poèmes de la poétesse grecque Veroniki Dalakoura, traduits par John Taylor, paraissent dans la revue Eurolitkrant: Six Poems from 26 Poems Translated from the Greek by John Taylor . . . And the Catastrophe Don’t leave me alone, please don’t leave me In beloved hell This earth lies under […]
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