This volume provides an account of collaborative poetry translation in practice. The book focuses on the ‘poettrio’ method as a case study. This process brings together the source-language poet, the target-language poet, and a language advisor serving as a bilingual mediator between the two.
In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was born in Sussex and died in Italy when his sailing boat overturned while returning from a visit to Byron. A radical thinker and social campaigner, Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language which confirms his standing as a major figure in Romantic literature.
British poetry is enjoying a period of exceptional richness and variety. This is exciting but it’s also confusing, and throws up the need for an enthusiastic guide that can explain and celebrate the many parallel poetry projects now underway.