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Monthly Archives: May 2011
A Mammoth Feat
Judges Comments on awarding the NSW Premier’s Translation Prize to Ian Johnston: “Dr Ian Johnston’s background in medicine informs his work as a translator, as he brings the sharpness and precision of a neurosurgeon’s scalpel to the extraordinary translation projects … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese poetry, Ian Johnston, Pardalote Press, Prizes, The Mozi
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Travelling the Hard Road
The results are out – Ian Johnston has won the NSW Premier’s Translation Prize 2011! Ian receives $30,000 and PEN medallion. Here is another poem from Waiting for the Owl: poems and songs from ancient China. It is an extract … Continue reading
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Tagged Bao Zhao, Chinese poetry, Ian Johnston, Pardalote Press, Prizes
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The Radical Politics of Nature Writing
This paper by Pete Hay is loosely based on a talk given on the occasion of the national Inverawe Nature Poetry Competition, May 2006. “We should write on, then, and we should do so knowing that this is no mere … Continue reading
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Tagged Inverawe, nature writing, Pete Hay
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Poet of the Fields
The poets of Ancient China were writing about their love of nature for centuries. Tao Yuanming (365-427 AD) was a poet of the Eastern Jin period and is known as the founder of pastoral poetry. The following fu poem is … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese poetry, Ian Johnston, Pardalote Press, pastoral poetry
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Links to Places
The price for using a free template for your blog is that sometimes automatically generated links appear at the bottom of posts. Mostly these have nothing to do with what you are writing about, but occasionally they lead to unexpected … Continue reading
Shambles
What a great name for a bookshop! The gala opening of the new shop is on Friday 13th May 6 -7pm, and yours truly will be reading from my new poetry collection, Designs on the Body. Tom and Sally have … Continue reading
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