Lord teach us to care and not to care. TS Eliot “What is poetry?” Will we meet it – a stranger, bouquet of roses in hand – at romantic junctions; will we feel a flash of recognition because of a connection with some old acquaintance; or will it be words that quietly accompany the descent of [...]
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The Big Question
Posted in The Skills, tagged poetry on December 3, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Timelessness & translating: poetry from the morning of the world
Posted in The Skills, Translations, tagged about writing poetry, Graeme Wilson, Japanese Poetry, LadyN, manyoshu, translation, writing on April 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“…once, I had grasped the effect of the Japenese original on a wide range of Japanese readers, I scrapped all my preliminary work and endeavoured to write a poem-in-English that would have the equivalent effect on a similar range of English readers. At the risk of making a mere phrase, I was in fact seeking [...]
Those self-same skills
Posted in The Skills, tagged abridged 0-17, ghosts, Lady Nakatomi, LadyN, love-letters, mist, poem, poetry, sea, tanka, Tyrella on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had intended to write every week; and I didn’t intend to post any of my poetry. This overdue letter is in the form of a poem. I had been thinking about Lady Nakatomi writing tanka and collecting shells and a walk I’d taken with my sister at Tyrella beach. Worse again – it had [...]
