Jenna Tang immerses herself in the nostalgic sensory world of Derek Chung’s poetry collection «A Cha Chaan Teng That Does Not Exist», translated from the Chinese by May Huang.
Translating Home
Tongues upon Tongues
Amanda L. Andrei is swept away by the flowing lyricism of «Glossolalia», Marlon Hacla’s book of poems translated from Filipino by Kristine Ong Muslim for Ugly Duckling Presse.
“mit diesem grenzhandel / an der sprache”
Daniel Rabuzzi reviews Uljana Wolf’s poetry collection «kochanie, today I bought bread» and admires the cleverness of Greg Nissan in bringing the work from German to English.
Placing «Joy at the Helm»
John Taylor pulls back the curtain on his ongoing translations of the Belgian francophone poet Charline Lambert, intimately exploring her work and laying bare his own process.
Stan Tracey, Translator?
Samuel Martin listens to the Stan Tracey Quartet’s Jazz Suite inspired by Dylan Thomas’s «Under Milk Wood» and explores the extent to which it can be considered a translation.
Navigating Liquid Geographies
Peter Constantine speaks with Greek Cypriot poet Eleni Kefala about «Time Stitches», an intricate mesh of linguistic and historical strands now published in Peter’s translation.
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