Comments on: The black hole http://www.poetryinternationalblog.org/?p=511 festival blog Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:09:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Richard McKane http://www.poetryinternationalblog.org/?p=511&cpage=1#comment-525 Richard McKane Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:02:36 +0000 http://www.poetryinternationalblog.org/?p=511#comment-525 My friend the Francophone Algerian Poet, Adel Guemar, and I often talk about 'trous dans nos memoires'. It's poets who bring rainbow light to these black holes, that can even suffuse dementia. I have very happy memories of my time in Rotterdam at Poetry International when I talked about Anna Akhmatova and of my correspondence with Martin Mooij and subsequently translated pamphlets of the late Ryzhi and Leontiev and Purin. Then somehow we lost touch. I'm back and my first major book of my own has been published in England Out of the Cold Blue (Hearing Eye) though my editor John Rety died suddenly of a heart attack three days after the launch reading. I know Katia Kapovich was with you this year, a fine poet whom I've translated. I now live in the provinces and have stopped interpreting... but part of me remains in Rotterdam, ticking over. May your successes continue! Richard McKane My friend the Francophone Algerian Poet, Adel Guemar, and I often talk about ‘trous dans nos memoires’. It’s poets who bring rainbow light to these black holes, that can even suffuse dementia.
I have very happy memories of my time in Rotterdam at Poetry International when I talked about Anna Akhmatova and of my correspondence with Martin Mooij and subsequently translated pamphlets of the late Ryzhi and Leontiev and Purin. Then somehow we lost touch. I’m back and my first major book of my own has been published in England Out of the Cold Blue (Hearing Eye) though my editor John Rety died suddenly of a heart attack three days after the launch reading. I know Katia Kapovich was with you this year, a fine poet whom I’ve translated. I now live in the provinces and have stopped interpreting… but part of me remains in Rotterdam, ticking over. May your successes continue! Richard McKane

]]> By: Jennifer Matthews http://www.poetryinternationalblog.org/?p=511&cpage=1#comment-215 Jennifer Matthews Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:32:26 +0000 http://www.poetryinternationalblog.org/?p=511#comment-215 Well said, Sara. Was lovely meeting you in Rotterdam and well done to you and everyone at PIW. What a festival! Jen Matthews Munster Literature Centre Well said, Sara. Was lovely meeting you in Rotterdam and well done to you and everyone at PIW. What a festival!

Jen Matthews
Munster Literature Centre

]]> By: ron winkler http://www.poetryinternationalblog.org/?p=511&cpage=1#comment-206 ron winkler Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:54:07 +0000 http://www.poetryinternationalblog.org/?p=511#comment-206 No sea here. And no oblivion. You swarm of fairies. No sea here. And no oblivion. You swarm of fairies.

]]> By: admin http://www.poetryinternationalblog.org/?p=511&cpage=1#comment-203 admin Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:56:40 +0000 http://www.poetryinternationalblog.org/?p=511#comment-203 Thank you, Thomas! Thank you, Thomas!

]]> By: Thomas McCarthy http://www.poetryinternationalblog.org/?p=511&cpage=1#comment-202 Thomas McCarthy Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:49:31 +0000 http://www.poetryinternationalblog.org/?p=511#comment-202 Aha! Sarah, neither are you all forgotten by the poets and translators who attended this year's wonderful Poetry International. We will remember the efficiency, yes, but also the friendship and poetic fellowship of the staircases and foyers of the grand Theatre in Rotterdam. As I walk here by the sea in West Cork, I think of you all in faraway Rotterdam. Thank you, it was a wonderful week of important encounters, of friends made through linguistic interaction and the attentive listening of brilliant audiences. Salut! Rotterdam, Thomas McCarthy IRELAND Aha! Sarah, neither are you all forgotten by the poets and translators who attended this year’s wonderful Poetry International. We will remember the efficiency, yes, but also the friendship and poetic fellowship of the staircases and foyers of the grand Theatre in Rotterdam. As I walk here by the sea in West Cork, I think of you all in faraway Rotterdam. Thank you, it was a wonderful week of important encounters, of friends made through linguistic interaction and the attentive listening of brilliant audiences.
Salut! Rotterdam,
Thomas McCarthy
IRELAND

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