“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
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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/edwin-morgan-in-touch-with-language/
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)
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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/07/28/staff-picks-cuddy-boont-zuzzo/
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?”
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/16/poem-of-the-week-ay-but-can-ye-by-vladimir-mayakovsky
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