| | Poetry International Archives News
- July 29 2020 | |
| | | | | | | | | | Summer takes mercy on our days now. In the long, warm light, a temporary infinity unfolds itself, freed from the compelling rhythm of daily schedules and haste. A time without news, gooseberry time, although we know that life continues in all its shades from cheerful to sad. Sometimes we experience this first-hand, sometimes we only find out later. We look at our surroundings in a different way, we search for new ones too, we look toward the horizon to discover our own expanses. We pause, make way for our senses. If we’re lucky we manage to think around the fixed choreography of reasoning. We cherish the moments that we later dare to call poetic. Like the moments captured in the poems on this tour. Summer, hushed and restrained, is expressed in the signs of underlying reality. | |
| | | | Enjoy this brief journey in the company of poets who also wish to look straight into the sun and will not ignore its frayed edges and shards...
Bon voyage!
ARCHIVE TOUR
SHARDS OF A FUTURE PAST | |  | |
| | | | | | Last month we had new publications by our partner for the UK, The Poetry Society, and a one-off publications from Spain by guest editor and translator Lawrence Schimel and from Ethiopia by translator Chris Beckett. | |
| | | | Jordi Doce (Spain)
Spanish poet Jordi Doce writes "unforgettable poems that, on the verge of tales and fables, drag the reader toward a universe of images", according to critic Antonio Ortega writing in El Pais. Others have compard Doce to Miguel de Unamuno, Antonio Machado, William Blake and T.S. Eliot. | |  | |
| | | | Rebecca Tamas (UK)
Bold, unruly and irrepressible, Rebecca Tamas's poetry channels the feminist, occult and ecological to captivate and disrupt.
Richard Scott (UK)
Playful, precise and provocative, Richard Scott's defiantly queer poetry celebrates and challenges. | |  | |
| | | | | Ethiopian Amharic poetry
Carcanet Press has recently published Songs We Learn from Trees, the first ever anthology of Ethiopian Amharic poetry in English. It is a huge landmark for Ethiopian poetry, which has been flourishing in its own proud highland bubble for centuries! Not a single Ethiopean poet has to date made it into, for example, the 2002 Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry. “Ethiopians will tell you wryly", translator Chris Beckett says, that they "suffer from never having been colonised, and there is a grain of truth in this horrible witticism”. The greater the honour to now be able to present some of these poets on the Poetry International #Archives website. | |  | |
| | | | | LGBTQ+ Archive Tour
This week is Amsterdam Gay Pride week. To support the Pride, that is forced to take place online only, we have selected thirteen poems, written by poets who identify as everything but heterosexual or cis-gender; about love, struggle, loss and their search for their own identity.
Happy pride! | |  | |
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