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Orchards
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Peter Oram, Alex Barr
Starborn Books, 208pp Hardback ISBN-10189953038X
Series 3 Number 16 - The Dialect of the TribeReview by Delphine Grass
Vergers is arguably the most famous of Rilke’s poetry collections written in French. The title itself holds special importance in Rilke’s poetic venture. It was this word that stirred his first impulse to write in the French language while residing in Veyras, Switzerland. Although they are often referred to as Rilke’s ‘simpler’ poems, one could turn...
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By Alexis Stamatis -
Translated by Thom Nairn and D. Zervanou
Dionysia Press, 2009 - 978-1-903171-32-5 £9:50
Is simplicity the translation or the poet? I will probably never know. The space and place of the work is not mine, even though the words have been translated. This is what I want from writing, to be taken to another place, from near to far. My ideas of the world and words taken to another place and made to account for themselves. He ranges through love and loss, into vignettes of his life and culture. Finally asking the question why.
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