Southerly Volume 70 No 1, 2010 - Golden Tongues: The Arts of Translations

Description

Translation - always one of the key arts of literature - has a particular importance in Australia, where our writers draw upon so many traditions and write in so many languages that, just to know what our literature is, we have to be continually translating ourselves to ourselves. This issue looks at the arts of translation as they are understood and practiced in this country, and gives Southerly's readers a tantalising glimpse of what its translators are choosing to work on. From Baudelaire to Bei Dao, Linda Le to Alejandro Carrizo, post-war Polish poetry to the ancient Persians, 'Golden Tongues' is not only a salute to the translator's art, but a sumptuous anthology of international material, much of which has never been seen in English before - accompanied, as always, by some of the best new Australian writing and criticism.