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Translation as Creative Writing
As part of our Poetry Craft series, Steve Komarnyckyj discusses the craft of translation in creative writing. Do you think every act of writing is a kind of translation? We are all translators. Everything we do is an act of translation. Our brains interpret the sensory data flooding our perceptions. Each of us inhabits a world that we have “translated“…
Steve Komarnyckyj
How to Write Poetry: A Guide to Translation and Transformation
In this series, we explore different ways write poetry, if you’re looking for tips on how to start writing poetry as a beginner, see this blog ‘How to: Poetry Writing Tips for Beginners’. Here’s Carmen Bugan discussing the idea of poetry as translation and transformation. 1. Let’s start with Desert Island Poems. Can you name…
Carmen Bugantry to build a pamphlet: Transreading Central Europe
Not just new ways to write, the Poetry School’s Transreading Central Europe course was about experiments in reading. For the 10 weeks of the course, myself and other students puzzled over languages we barely understood to create poems based on the sounds or shapes of Polish, Slovene or Hungarian (homophonic translation)—which in my case had…
Rob Packer