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Tag Archives: Ian Johnston
Man at the Edge of the World
ABC Poetica recently re-broadcast the programme on Ian Johnston, translator of ‘Waiting for the Owl’ and ‘Singing of Scented Grass’. If you missed it you can download it from RN website and listen to these wonderful translations of poems from … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese poetry, Ian Johnston, Pardalote Press, poetry, translation prize
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Goodbye Pardalote
After thirteen years and sixteen titles, Pardalote Press is about to call it a day. I am currently in the process of closing down the publishing company that has brought so many fine poetry books into being, including Karen Knight’s … Continue reading
More honours for Pardalote poets
A hearty congratulations to Karen Knight whose villanelle from Postcards from the Asylum has been included in Villanelles, edited by Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali and published by Random House in the prestigious Everyman Library Pocket Poets series. Karen’s poem … Continue reading
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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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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