| Thanks a lot to Per Brask and Patrick Friesen for this outstanding translation. Without you my poems would be locked up in the Danish language: it is a privilege that they are in your hands. Both of you are artists from the top shelf, and the translation benefits from your skills and lifelong friendship.
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"Patrick James Errington Wins Pollard International Poetry Prize"
The Chair of the judges, Professor Eoin McNamee, Director of the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre, noted: "You fall past Canadian skies full of an unspeakable history of snow, the ice fields of family and illness, past Einstein and the Tao, promises kept and broken, cancer, the forensics of the self. It is work of remarkable virtuosity which always grounds itself in emotion, in the hard-earned poetics of the heart.” The prize recognises an outstanding debut collection published in English.
via TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Juliana Spahr on "Gentle Now Don't Add to Heartache"
"Humans do not show up until the eighth section of sixteen. The chant is enumerative, but not merely enumerative. In the list of flora and fauna that the Kumulipo includes, humans come after birds, bats, and fish and before octopus, coral, and eel. I know of almost no examples of a poem with such an ecosystem, such a hope, such a possibility, such a reminder. And if I had to start to try to figure out what poetry is in this moment of ecological crisis, I might start there." |
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