COLLECTED POEMS - NEW TRANSLATIONS

In writing my third collection of translations I aimed to celebrate the ongoing conversations of my daily work and the continual joy of being a poet: the continuing conversations.  It is a collection in celebration and appreciation of the wonderful conversations with many friends around the world, who have their own amazing languages, and yet have chosen to work with the beauty of the English language in our goings-on together. 

 

In the collection I explore, in my friends native languages, the eternal source of poetry for national poets from around the world.  All cultures value their own poetry even if they do not read them,  as poetry expresses something important to people about their community, which is also universally experienced by all poets.  This collection, in a second downloadable pdf, are my translations, which bring together the words of poets writing about the source of their poetry from many generations and cultures and all genders.  It was written because poets often speak of the same eternal challenges, which this collection aims to show: we are closer, in love, to each other than we often believe, maybe poets feel it more, but we all know it to be true in our own way (with many things getting in the way!).