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About the Book

These are not translations, properly speaking, but are versions of their originals, Derek Mahon's imaginative, recreative and recreational adaptations, done over the years 'with the idle intensity of doodles', ask to be read 'almost like original poems in English, allowing their sources to remain audible'. Many of them started life in previous publications and now reappear, some slightly revised, in a new context. Some are published here for the first time. The poets represented range from Sophocles to Pasolini, Juvenal to Brecht. There is a large French section which includes a song cycle based on the trobairitz (women troubadours), "The Chimeras" of Nerval and a much admired version of Valery, 'The Seaside Cemetery'. Baudelaire and Pasternak are here, together with a largely recent Rilke group, and the volume concludes with three versions from the Irish of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill.

Table of Contents:
Chorus from Antigone 15 Chorus from Oedipus at Colonus 17 Lucretius on Clouds 19 How to Live 21 Ovid in Love 22 Galatea 25 Human Wishes 28 from The Bangor Antiphonary 30 The Bangor Blackbird 32 Spring Song 33 Dawn Songs blue skies 35 on the road 35 Women in Love 36 Night and Day 40 Art and Dust 41 The Young Cordwainer 42 Folk Song 43 A Game of Cards 44 A Rewrite 46 The Cloud 47 The Chimeras el desdichado 48 myrtho 49 horus 50 anteros 51 delphica 52 artemis 53 christ on the mount of olives 54 pythagorean lines 59 Scene 60 Dusk 61 Love in the Afternoon 63 from The Drunken Boat 65 The Travel Section 67 Alexandria the city 68 voices 68 a considered pause 69 old men 69 the life we know 70 The Enchanted Wood 71 The Seaside Cemetery 72 Jardin du Luxembourg 77 Night Drive 78 Borgeby-Gard 79 Night Watch 80 Ariel to Prospero 81 A Siren 82 White Night 83 Earth 85 White Cloud 87 Brecht in Svendborg 88 Two from Burbles 90 from Gramsci's Ashes 91 The Voice 92 Ignorance 93 Words in the Air 94 Paranoia 95 An Orphan at the Door 96 The Race 98

About the Author :
Derek Mahon's translations have included Words in the Air (1998), a selection of poems by Philippe Jaccottet, and Birds (2002), a version of Oiseaux by Saint-John Perse. The Gallery Press also publishes Collected Poems (1999) and Harbour Lights (2005) which received the Irish Times Poetry Now 2006 Award.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781852354046
  • Publisher: The Gallery Press
  • Publisher Imprint: The Gallery Press
  • Height: 214 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1852354046
  • Publisher Date: 23 Jun 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Width: 138 mm


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