sounds like a great idea.
Comment is about Mad experiment on Write Out Loud – translating poems online! (article)
Sounds like you are at breaking point,conveys the inner struggle were peace no longer exists x
Comment is about Two a.m. (blog)
harsh,unrelenting,atmospheric.Nice one,Kealan.
Comment is about The Last Star (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
no problem alex. yeh it was a good night ;)
Comment is about Rachel Bond (poet profile)
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Sat 11th May 2013 10:29
re spiders and the like.Twas only recently that my Daughter and Son-in-law nearly became names on headstones had they not been alerted by the dog to the presence of a highly poisonous Sun spider wanting to tuck into bed with them!! phew!xx
Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)
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Sat 11th May 2013 09:12
Thank you Dorinda. My maternal great grandmother was French, too. I am hoping to get some French poetry on the wiki soon.
However, the idea of 'playing around' with the initial draft translations, or the word-for-word translations is definitely a part of this exercise. In the workshops I found a great deal of interest in using a translation to create a new version of something, as well as the original idea of trying to translate the poet's intentions.
I hope to see you on Monday at Stockport Write Out Loud.
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Sat 11th May 2013 09:05
this is really harder than I imagined because I have no sense of the original. Perhaps, Saleema, you could read it as an audio and upload it? You need to create an audio file then upload it using update media
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hi danny...i read back my comments on your vegetarian poetry. im very sorry i gave you such an onslaught of criticism over the subject. the poem was very good indeed as i remember. please write more xx
Comment is about Danny Metcalfe (poet profile)
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<Deleted User> (6895)
Fri 10th May 2013 22:03
you are at it again Jonnie!
And how thankful we are,
that you are!xx
Comment is about For A Second I Forgot (blog)
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Fri 10th May 2013 21:55
good one Guv'nor!xx
Comment is about Meal ticket (blog)
<Deleted User> (6895)
Fri 10th May 2013 21:52
its Running Bear
that always leads to the Big Horn
is'nt it Mr.Wigwham-bam-thank you Ma'am Whiteley?
tee hee!xx
Comment is about Shy Ann (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
I hadn't heard a thing since my acceptance and didn't know it was out! What wonderful company to join in publication.
Comment is about Write Out Loud poets line up with famous names in Heart Shoots charity anthology (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
And I was just thinking this week - I wonder where Ann is - and there you are - poetical guns blazing - like some ancient Celtic sorceress.
Comment is about breathing (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
What language was this in originally? And where is the 'word for word'? I don't want to make changes that simply rework a fellow English translator's efforts. Or is this the 'purist' original, adhering closely to the arrangement of the first language, keeping the idea as intact as possible?
What am I missing? I cannot access Version 2 to make any changes. I had no problem with the prior poem.
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Fri 10th May 2013 15:52
Thanks for that comment on my write..pleased you found something within that struck a chord.
I have been enjoying your writes, I saw on tv those elephants in Blackpool, holding tails. :(
Comment is about Richard Alfred (poet profile)
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<Deleted User> (6315)
Fri 10th May 2013 15:50
A cracking couple of finishing lines there..enjoyed the whole :)
Comment is about Re-Gather (blog)
Original item by Richard Alfred
Hi really enjoyed the poem on your audio clip Blue is it?
Well whatever the title I enjoyed )
cheers
Comment is about Fay Roberts (poet profile)
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Sorry to disappoint you Jonny, but it was Paul Blackburn. A very handsome man indeed, but probably 30-40 years your senior :))
Comment is about Jonny Rodgers (poet profile)
Original item by Jonny Rodgers
I absolutely love the last line of this.
Comment is about regret (blog)
Original item by Emma Roy- Williams
Julian, I recall you talking about this some weeks ago at WOL Stockport, and I remember thinking what a brilliant idea it was! In fact (since we are 'going global'), as a lovely Jewish friend of mine would say: "When I tell you let me tell you, I wish you well to wear it" - that is, the new mantle of crowd translation, poetry shared with many a nation....
I do not have a second language, so perhaps I could help a little with turning 'drafts' into better English (I have a great love of the French language - my maternal grandmother was born there - but my skill at speaking it is sadly lacking, I am sorry to say).
Well done for this; I would be glad to help.
Comment is about Mad experiment on Write Out Loud – translating poems online! (article)
Salutations from a space invader )
Comment is about Gordon Zola (poet profile)
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Well done for all your hard work on this, Julian, and congratulations on the technical work to aid it carried out by Paul and Michael behind the scenes. I see that Cynthia has already dipped her toe into the poetry translation water ...
Comment is about Mad experiment on Write Out Loud – translating poems online! (article)
Don't worry if you can't make Matthew's launch on 10th May. There's another chance to hear him read at Poetry by Heart, at the Heart Centre, Headingley on Wednesday 29th May 7:30pm Free admission.
(Plus five other top class poets)
Comment is about Book launch and anthology in 'literary backwater' Leeds (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I agree with Freda, the observation - and compassion - is spot-on. You see everything, as in a film.
Comment is about The Night Bus Driver (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
well observed Dave, and well expressed. Todays news. excellent.
Comment is about The Night Bus Driver (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
bi polar is not usually a condition that 'kills itself' drugs and alcohol have a high percentage hold of that one. people with bi polar usually ride out all of the above creatively and with tremendous resource. id leave suicide to rock stars with too much money for heroin o.ds and make room for a manic depressive with a shotgun pointed firmly from the hip at those who would misunderstand them ;) ive never heard of higher rates of suicide than within the rooms of NA and AA recovery...but yeh interesting article. 50% of 'successful' suicides are drawn out, painful and a result of substance misuse rather than mental illness..but of course the question remains, what is mental illness anyway? an what is suicide?... GUILT usually plays is part either real or percieved.guilt can destroy a person..is guilt a mental illness? you seem to be saying with that post that life is so difficult for the mentally ill that suicide is an easier option. which is kind of funny. life is complicated. suicide is not an easy option. good topic.
Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)
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Fri 10th May 2013 00:08
exelent poem it realy says a lot :)
Comment is about For A Second I Forgot (blog)
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Fri 10th May 2013 00:00
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Thu 9th May 2013 23:48
'something in the fridge'-
a mouth silently tells a stomach?
great poem nevertheless Frederick.x
Comment is about Meal ticket (blog)
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Thu 9th May 2013 23:38
John,
You could go through the entire fish kingdom with this.
(what a brilliant one for a guest-spot!)
Comment is about I Had A Bream (Fishermen's Tales) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Yep, you are right...(again!)
Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Many thanks for your thoughts on "Dick".
I am just enormously thankful that the call to resist Nazism fell on the last previous generation and not ours.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
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Nigel, I have done that. It will be £18.05 including postage and packing.
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
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everyone wants to be controlled, dominated or handled. it is too difficult to think freely in a world that is moving at the speed of the hyper highway. the universe ever expanding at a rate we cannot measure. we are all stuck with glue and our skeletons are wanting to break out but dont know where to go..our muscles no longer wired up to the source as it is deseminated by its billions subscribers...we are like a hick shack in wales..a backward slow turning planet. always waiting for some one else to make us free.
Comment is about Checkpoint (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
thank isobel..love is only a sad recollection for me. this poem is beautiful because it is poured with innocence and naivity, i like the milk imagery. a mothers milk cooling carnal fires. breast milk, asses milk sweet with seduction. if i didnt know better i would mistake kealan for a sweet sensitive soul that has yet to be truley burnt, on the beach or anywhere, even in dream. i like a nice love dream, it seems even they are rare as black sand today. they exist for sure, loads of them but on someone elses shore..haha sorry im a miserable bugger xx
Comment is about Her (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
wow thanks...ive loads llike this sitting in files, observations, frustrations etc ill have to find them all again x
Comment is about white noise (letters) (blog)
Original item by Rachel Bond
A salutary tale for the attitude of mind in
many that sees older folk as either
pointless or useless. Little (in so many ways) do they know!
Comment is about Dick (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
"Mr Coopey Goes Fishing"!! (bringing back great
memories of a book by Bernard Venables!).
Comment is about I Had A Bream (Fishermen's Tales) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
thanks for your comments on 'the snowspider' David - the location is very real (deep in the forests of Bannf in British Columbia, Canada) althought the snow spider is........less so!
:-)
Ian
Comment is about David Blake (poet profile)
Original item by David Blake
glad you liked 'the cause celebre' Isobel - the only apt response (because I'm rubbish at French) is 'merci' - will see you at the Tudor later, if you're going :-)
Ian
PS - congrats on winning the competition - well deserved and liked your submission very much
Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)
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Can you order five for me John
Thanks
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
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Hi Greg Thanks for comment on 'Territory'. Yes, the 'fine line bwteen civilisation and the natural world' has been a bit of an obsession with me in recent years. I had actually promised myself a break from poetry - thinking I maybe been pushing it a bit- then this one just came out of the blue!
Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)
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Hi Johnie - what a jolly good surname Falafel is! Glad to see you using the blogs - hope you are enjoying the site!
Comment is about Jonnie Falafel (poet profile)
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I liked it too - something abit different in a poem - always a good thing! And a very human tale.
Comment is about Clock Watchers In The Woods (blog)
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I really like Rachel's comment there - it's such a sad poetic reflection on the pursuit of love.
There are some incredibly raw, natural elements to this Kealan.
'happiness heaves
its pure milk on our new light'
I could never have thought that line up in a month of Sundays - but it seems right.
Comment is about Her (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
<Deleted User> (9882)
Sat 11th May 2013 17:52
you are'nt as good looking as G.Clooney Harry,but how much is in that sock under your pillow?
really good poem!x
Comment is about A poet at prayer (blog)
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