In Reality

Selected Poems

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Continuing Seren's Discoveries series of exceptional writing in translation, this new collection brings the selected poems of Jean Portante to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Translated by Zoë Skoulding.As a Francophone Luxembourger of Italian descent, Portante's poetry is often concerned with European politics, language, and questions of identity. This dual-language edition collects work from the last 20 years, including work from his 2103 collection Après le tremblement.Jean Portante has written more than 20 books, including collections of poems, short stories, plays, screenplays and novels. He is a founding member of the European Academy of Poetry and a member of International PEN France. He was awarded Luxembourg's national literary prize, the Batty Weber Prize, in 2011. Zoë Skoulding is the editor of Poetry Wales, and author of the Seren collections The Mirror Trade (2004), Remains of a Future City (2008) and The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (2013).

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-09-20
Mått:139 x 217 x 12 mm
Vikt:325 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:148
Förlag:Poetry Wales Press
ISBN:9781781720653
Översättare:Zoë Skoulding

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Jean Portante has written over twenty books, including collections of poems, short stories, plays, screenplays, chronicles and novels, and has been translated into several languages, though shamefully seldom into English. He is the director of the 'Graphiti' series of poetry in Editions PHI, and the editor of the weekly Le Jeudi. He is also is a founding member of the European Academy of Poetry and a member of International P.E.N. France. In 2011, he was awarded Luxembourg's prestigious Batty Weber Prize. Translator Biog Zoe Skoulding is the editor of Poetry Wales, and author of The Mirror Trade (2004) and Remains of a Future City (2008). Her latest collection, The Museum of Disappearing Sounds appears in 2013. Skoulding has made her reputation as an experimental poet and an adventurous and open-minded editor. Her own work shares the concerns of Portante and she has made elegant and sympathetic translations of his poetry.

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"In reality, reality is ghosted by a multiplicity of forms of energy & energies of form it is the poet's job to reveal & hide in the double play of his languages' hide & seek. Jean Portante is a master at just that chasse-croise of language & meaning, of real ghosts & ghostly realities. One 'In Reality' can (& does) hide another. Read on & in." - Pierre Joris