Can ye wheeple
Nocturnes frae a rone-pipe flute?
“Morgan brings out sonorities audible in the Russian but beyond the scope of standard English” – Carol Rumens on Morgan’s Scots translation of Mayakovsky’s “А вы могли бы?”
3/3
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/16/poem-of-the-week-ay-but-can-ye-by-vladimir-mayakovsky
#Scottish #literature #poetry #translation #InternationalTranslationDay #Scots #Scotslanguage #Russian #EdwinMorgan #Mayakovsky
Forcryinoutloud!
The starns licht up—aa richt:
does that prove some loon hud to hae it?
Nicole Rudick in the Paris Review on WI THE HAILL VOICE – Morgan’s translations of 25 poems by Mayakovsky into Scots
2/3
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/07/28/staff-picks-cuddy-boont-zuzzo/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #translation #InternationalTranslationDay #Scots #Scotslanguage #Russian #EdwinMorgan #Mayakovsky
“The use of Scots, apart from the relative ease of working up the right atmosphere, also helps (though dangerously) because of the verbal freedom it confers on a harassed translator”
—Edwin Morgan on translating Mayakovsky into Scots
1/3
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/edwin-morgan-in-touch-with-language/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #translation #InternationalTranslationDay #Scots #Scotslanguage #Russian #EdwinMorgan #Mayakovsky
Looking up a poem by Mayakovsky, I came across these three versions of the opening lines. Basic math seems to have been abandoned, for what purpose?
"A hundred and forty suns in one sunset blazed..."
"A hundred suns the sunset fired..."
"The sunset blazed like sixty suns..."
Can ye wheeple
Nocturnes frae a rone-pipe flute?
“Morgan brings out sonorities audible in the Russian but beyond the scope of standard English”
—Carol Rumens on Edwin Morgan’s #Scots translation of Mayakovsky’s “А вы могли бы?”
3/3
#Scottish #literature #poetry #translation #Scotslanguage #EdwinMorgan #Mayakovsky #InternationalTranslationDay
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/16/poem-of-the-week-ay-but-can-ye-by-vladimir-mayakovsky
Forcryinoutloud!
The starns licht up—aa richt:
does that prove some loon hud to hae it?”
Nicole Rudick in the Paris Review on WI THE HAILL VOICE – Edwin Morgan’s #Scots translations of 25 poems by Mayakovsky (Carcanet Press, 2016)
2/3
#Scottish #literature #poetry #translation #Scotslanguage #EdwinMorgan #Mayakovsky #InternationalTranslationDay
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/07/28/staff-picks-cuddy-boont-zuzzo/
“The use of #Scots, apart from the relative ease of working up the right atmosphere, also helps (though dangerously) because of the verbal freedom it confers on a harassed translator.”
—Edwin Morgan on translating Mayakovsky
1/3
#Scottish #literature #poetry #translation #Scotslanguage #EdwinMorgan #Mayakovsky #InternationalTranslationDay
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/edwin-morgan-in-touch-with-language/
#NataliaKrylova on life, love, language, and the #SovietAvantGarde
https://euraknot.org/2024/02/26/the-soviet-avant-garde/
#SovietLiterature #RussianLiterature #RussianAvantGarde #Mayakovsky
Vladimir #Mayakovsky, “Ξελασπώστε το μέλλον”
Δεν είναι μόνον
ο #Κομμουνισμός
στη γη,
στα κάθιδρα εργοστάσια εκείνα.
Είναι και μες στο σπίτι,
στο τραπεζάκι μπρος,
στις σχέσεις,
στη φαμίλια,
στην καθημερινή ρουτίνα.
Assoc for Scottish Literature
Andrew Gent 🇺🇦 🇬🇱
poetikagaur
Paria sans portefeuille
rotenotes