In an in-depth article, Robert Minto reviews the American translation, by John Taylor, of Philippe Jaccottet’s Patches of Sunlight, Or of Shadow (Seagull Books), on the website On the Seawall: Early in 1973, the Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet decided to write about the new novel La Dépossession by Jacques Borel. He was “indignant,” he noted in his […]
Read MoreJohn Taylor’s story « Homecoming », translated into Italian by Marco Morello, is published as « Ritorno a casa » in Il Giornalaccio. The story is from Taylor’s American book The Presence of Things Past (Red Hen Press).
Read MoreFranca Mancinelli’s story « The Little Girl Who Learned How to Fly », in John Taylor’s translation, has appeared in the review One Hand Clapping.
Read MoreBlack Square Editions has published John Taylor’s translation of Philippe Jaccottet’s « Ponge, Pastures, Prairies ». Here is the link to the book.
Read MoreAlfredo de Palchi’s Terminal Events (translation John Taylor) has just been published by Xenos Books.
Read MorePoems by Franca Mancinelli, in John Taylor’s translation, in the new issue of Right Hand Pointing. They are from her book Tutti gli occhi che ho aperto (Marcos y Marcos, 2020).
Read MoreThe new issue of The Bitter Oleander (volume 26, No. 2) has three poems from John Taylor’s sequence « Images from the Night, from Morning » as well as his translation of Franca Mancinelli’s prose text « Central Station ».
Read MoreThe Italian poet Adriana Gloria Marigo reviews John Taylor’s Oblò — Portholes (Pietre Vive Editore) for the literary website Limina Mundi. The book is translated by Marco Morello, illustrated by the French artist Caroline François-Rubino, with a postface by Franca Mancinelli. Here is the article: Tra Samos, Agosto 1976 e Bessans, Agosto 2014, nella coniugazione alchemica […]
Read MoreJohn Taylor reviews Jean de la Ville de Mirmont’s The Sundays of Jean Désert (Wakefield Press, translation by André Naffis-Sahely) in the Times Literary Supplement on 2 October 2020. Here is the article: Some forty years ago in a Paris bookshop, I reached to the highest shelf, intending to grasp a volume of Verlaine’s poetry. When I opened my […]
Read MoreJohn Taylor’s translation of Franca Mancinelli’s story « Inside a Horizon of Hills » has been selected by National Translation Month.
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