My friend of about eight years, artist Philippa Sutherland, died last
month. She’d been ill for some time and I’d been visiting her weekly for a
year. We w...
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Treason
If translators are traitors and poets are translators, then poets are traitors too. Would I be alone in thinking this is a good thing? In fact, I'm convinced that treason makes a poem authentic. It's the necessary process whereby verse is created.
Labels:
Poetry,
Translating
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