Quatre poèmes de Franca Mancinelli, traduits par John Taylor, dans la revue The Blue Nib (le 11 avril 2020) one can play dead: arms spread, the backbone for a keel, nothing in the mind, motion like a memory of water. * the day’s come, the wind won’t rise. Running between beacons and beatings—at the dock a few […]
Read MoreUn poème, « The Secret », dans le numéro du printemps 2020 de la revue The Bitter Oleander. « The Secret » (extrait) The landscape is interior. * What is high is higher. What is narrow is narrower. What is dark is darker. * What shines like snow shines like ice or pure light. Streams flow like […]
Read MorePeter Riley a écrit dans la Fortnightly Review ces mots sur At an Hour’s Sleep from Here (The Bitter Oleander Press) de Franca Mancinelli: « . . . Much could be said about how . . . [Franca Mancinelli] will again and again present us with an intimate moment or act which is then effortlessly woven into a […]
Read MoreUn petit film sur At an Hour’s Sleep from Here (The Bitter Oleander Press), de Franca Mancinelli, traduit de l’italien par John Taylor.
Read MoreLa série poétique « Portcards for a Landscape » de Franca Mancinelli viennent d’être publiée dans le troisième numéro de la January Review. Postcards for a Landscape earth, an obscure page: what happens is written shatters and crumbles in the darkness reaches meaning, is lost. * the sea changes the earth moves through furrows, rows of […]
Read MoreLe poète italien Elvio Ceci lit un extrait de Oblò (Pietre Vive editore) pour le projet « Poetry Wall ». Voici le vidéo.
Read MoreLe poète italien Elvio Ceci a écrit ce bel article sur Oblò (Pietre Vive Editore, illustrazioni di Caroline François-Rubino, traduzione di Marco Morello, postfazione di Franca Mancinelli), la traduction italienne de Portholes: « Dalla finestra di casa il sole forte disegna lo spazio, mentre la sabbia sembra perdere la forma. Dal cellulare la luce brilla e prende forma il […]
Read MoreFranca Mancinelli et John Taylor ont traduit un poème de Paul B. Roth pour le site littéraire italien Interno Poesia. Midnight Blue After snowy headlights blotch the hotel lobby’s ignored fica, fern and spider plant shadows and its elevator goes up before coming down, noise filled streets are muffled by slush swirling round the mushy […]
Read MoreCycladic Press publie Harsh out of Tenderness: The Greek Poet and Urban Folklorist Elias Petropoulos, de John Taylor. Il s’agit du premier livre sur l’enfant terrible des lettres grecques. La description du livre en anglais: Elias Petropoulos was the most controversial Greek writer of the twentieth century. Imprisoned three times during the Junta (1967-1974) and […]
Read MoreDes extraits du « Croatian Notebook » (« Taccuino croato ») de la poétesse italienne Franca Mancinelli ont paru dans la Fortnightly Review, traduits par John Taylor. Voici l’un des extraits: I DON’T KNOW why I’m here. Perhaps I have obeyed the sound of broken branches, which reaches me from this unknown language, like walking in a dense forest. There is […]
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