Five poems by Franca Mancinelli, in John Taylor’s translation, have been published in The Enchanting Verses Review. The poems, from her first book, Mala kruna (2007), are accompanied by an interview with Anindita Bose. Here is a question about the translation of Libretto di transito (Amos Edizioni) / The Little Book of Passage (The Bitter Oleander […]
Read MoreThe French poet Sabine Huynh has made this fine presentation of Le dernier cerisier (Éditions Voix d’encre) in the review Terre à ciel: John Taylor, Le dernier cerisier – The Last Cherry Tree, bilingue, avec des aquarelles de Caroline François-Rubino. Textes en anglais : John Taylor, traduction : Françoise Daviet-Taylor. Éditions Voix d’encre, 2019. Il y a… ce […]
Read MoreJohn Taylor’s article on the Serbian poet Dragan Jovanović Danilov has been translated into Macedonian by the poet Snezana Stojcevska and has appeared in the second issue of the Macedonian magazine COBPEMEHOCT: Here is the article in English, with the Macedonian translation at the end: Dragan Jovanović Danilov’s Poetry and its Backdrops Although Dragan Jovanović Danilov’s poems are […]
Read MoreJohn Taylor on Franca Mancinelli’s Libretto di transito in the Times Literary Supplement (21 June 2019, p. 32). This article is excerpted from his introduction to his translation of the same book, published in English by the Bitter Oleander Press as The Little Book of Passage: Franca Mancinelli’s Libretto di transito appears after her first […]
Read MorePierre Kobel has written this article on Le dernier cerisier (Éditions Voix d’encre) ; it appears on his blog La pierre et le sel: Le dernier cerisier se dressant au milieu des cultures ou sur une pelouse abandonnée derrière une maison ou est-ce sur un terrain de jeu le cerisier est toujours là depuis longtemps […]
Read MoreEight poems from Franca Mancinelli’s first book, Mala kruna (2007), translated into English by John Taylor for The Fortnightly Review: 1. on the horizon a different sea stopped the blood under your fingernails. A black-clad mother on the island came to your side, told you about the wind, the bad weather keeping the boats from leaving; then […]
Read MoreOlivier Massé has written a fine article on Le dernier cerisier (Éditions Voix d’encre) in the French literary review Diérèse:
Read MoreThe French poet Murièle Camac has written a fine article about Le dernier cerisier (Éditions Voix d’encre) by John Taylor (French translation by Françoise Daviet-Taylor, watercolors by Caroline François-Rubino). Here it is, on her blog Les portes de la perception: John Taylor : le recueil « Le Dernier cerisier » Quel est-il, cet arbre qui donne son […]
Read MoreJohn Taylor has collected and translated Philippe Jaccottet’s travel writings as A Calm Fire and Other Travel Writings (Seagull Books, 2019). The book comprises Libretto (1990), Crystal and Smoke (1993), Beginning with the Word « Russia » (2002), Israel: Blue Notebook (2004), and A Calm Fire (2007).
Read MoreThe Fortnightly Review has published Pierre Chappuis’s A Notebook of Clouds and John Taylor’s A Notebook of Ridges as a « double book ». From the back-cover text by Ian Seed: “A reading experience like no other…Pierre Chappuis’s ‘A Notebook of Clouds’ (in John Taylor’s nuanced translation) is by turns lyrical, playful, and philosophical. Magically, in a […]
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