He Tells Tales of Meroe: Poems for the Petrie Museum - Couverture souple

Al-Raddi, Al-Saddiq

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0957551193 ISBN 13 : 9780957551190

Editeur : The Poetry Translation Centre, 2015

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Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi is one of the leading African poets writing in Arabic today. He has gained a wide audience in his native Sudan for his imaginative approach to poetry and for the delicacy and emotional frankness of his lyrics. His poetry has always been concerned with the rich cultural and linguistic diversity of Sudan and its complex history.

Mark Ford was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1962. He has published three collections of poetry, Landlocked (1992), Soft Sift (2001) and Six Children (2011). He has also published a biography of the French writer Raymond Roussel, Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams, and a parallel text edition of Roussel

Sarah Maguire published four highly-acclaimed collections of poetry, Spilt Milk (Secker; 1991; reprinted PBS; 2007), The Invisible Mender (Cape; 1997), The Florist's at Midnight (Cape; 2001) and The Pomegranates of Kandahar (Chatto; 2007), a Poetry Book Society Choice that was short-listed for the TS Eliot Prize, 2007. Sarah edited the innovative and popular anthology Flora Poetica: The Chatto Book of Botanical Verse which was published in 2001.

Sarah was the first writer to be sent to Palestine (in 1996) and to Yemen (in 1998) by the British Council. Since then she has been active in translating contemporary Arabic poetry into English. With Yama Yari, she co-translated A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear (Chatto, 2006) by Atiq Rahimi, Afghanistan's leading novelist.

A selection of Sarah's poems, Haleeb Muraq, translated by the leading Iraqi poet, Saadi Yousef (the distinguished patron of the Poetry Translation Centre) was published by Dar Al-Mada in Damascus in 2003.

She has a book in print in Malayalam: a selected poems, Kandaharile Mathalanarngagal, translated by Abraham Anthony, was published in Kerala in 2010.

In March 2008, Sarah gave the StAnza Lecture 2008 at the St Andrews Poetry Festival on the subject of 'Poetry and Conflict'. A link to her lecture is given on the right. In June 2008, Sarah received a prestigious Cholmondeley Award.

Sarah Maguire was the founder and first director of the Poetry Translation Centre. She died in N0vember 2017.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Poetry Translation Centre
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0957551193
• ISBN 13: 9780957551190
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible